Mamie Till Bradley
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan on November 23, 1921, in Webb, Mississippi, was an American educator and civil rights activist whose life was...
Category : Civil Rights
J.W. Milam
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J.W. Milam was born John William Milam on December 24, 1921, in the small town of Kosciusko, Mississippi. He grew up in a poor, rural...
Roy Bryant
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Roy Bryant was a white man from Mississippi who, along with his half-brother J.W. Milam, was accused of the kidnapping, torture, and murder of Emmett...
Carolyn Bryant Donham
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Carolyn Bryant Donham is a woman from Mississippi who was at the center of a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. In 1955, Donham...
Hazel Bryan
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Hazel Bryan was a white high school student in Little Rock, Arkansas, who gained notoriety for her role in the Little Rock Nine crisis of...
David Richmond
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David Richmond was one of the four African American college students who participated in the Greensboro sit-ins, which were pivotal moments in the Civil Rights...
Joseph McNeil
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Joseph McNeil was one of the four African American college students who initiated the sit-in protest at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on...
Franklin McCain
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Franklin McCain was one of the four African American college students who initiated the sit-in protest at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on...
Ezell A. Blair Jr
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Ezell A. Blair Jr. was one of the four African American college students who initiated the sit-in protest at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North...
Sit-in Protest
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Sit-in protests emerged as a powerful form of nonviolent direct action during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This tactic, which involved...