Annie Lee Cooper
The Fearless Fighter for Voting Rights Annie Lee Cooper, a Selma native, played a pivotal role in the fight for voting rights during the civil...
Category : Civil Rights
Walgreens “Nashville” lunch counter sit-in, 1960
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University students from black colleges in Nashville including American Baptist, Fisk, Meharry, and Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial School held a sit-in protest at the downtown...
The Richard and Mildred Loving Story
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To say that Richard and Mildred Loving were reluctant heroes would be an understatement. Richard, with his platinum blonde crew cut, backwoods accent, and taciturn...
lynching of Luther Holbert and his wife
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From 1882 to 1944, there were about 4,700 lynchings in the United States; Mississippi led the nation with 573. Of Mississippi’s victims, 93% were African...
The Story Behind This Iconic Image of a Black Woman Pushing Aside a National Guardsman’s Bayonet
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She speaks to many of us — a black woman, dressed in a buttoned shirt and jeans, pushing aside a National Guardsman’s bayonet as though...
Buck Franklin
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Buck Franklin was an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is most notably known for defending the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. He...
Ax Handle Saturday
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More than 200 white people wielding baseball bats and ax handles chased African Americans through the streets of downtown Jacksonville, trying to beat them into...
Viola Liuzzo
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Viola Liuzzo was an American civil rights activist who played a significant role in the fight for racial equality during the 1960s. Born in California...
White Mob Lynched Cleo Wright in Sikeston, Missouri
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In the early hours of Sunday, January 25, 1942, a black man named Cleo Wright was arrested on charges of assaulting a white woman. Wright...
Long-awaited justice in cop’s killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, whose death helped spark Alabama civil rights marches
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After decades of waiting, justice has finally been served in the case of the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Jackson’s death, which occurred in 1965,...