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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
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So sad to learn of the passing of another icon whose family is synonymous w/the Civil Rights Movement. His refusal to leave a “whites only” area of a bus station diner led to a landmark SCOTUS decision which in turn led to the journey of the Freedom Riders https://t.co/xO2Hve9mtT
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Martin Luther King Jr. // "Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of... See more
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In December, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet, dignified black seamstress, Rosa Parks, refused to move to the back of a bus to make room for a white passenger, and was arrested for violating the Alabama bus segregation laws. A meeting in the church of Mrs. Parks’ pastor, a twenty-six-year-old black preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. who, as
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
I’ve gotten a lot of questions asking valid things like, “what now? How do we keep this momentum going?”
In the spirit of that, I made this small guide for non-black people who are wondering how to sustain a long-term movement. This will be a lifelong change, and good allyship is something that is consistently worked on. This is in no... See more
instagram.comAs Hamer and her associates prepared to leave, they saw that police officers had surrounded the old school bus in which they had traveled to the courthouse. Hamer later described the scene in vivid detail: “By the time the eighteen of us going in two by two had finished taking the literacy test—now there’s people, mind you, there that day with
... See moreKeisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
