The Rise of the Student Sit-In Movement
The Civil Rights Movement owes much to the students who boldly sat down at segregated lunch counters
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The Civil Rights Movement owes much to the students who boldly sat down at segregated lunch counters
Black children played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement
An Easter Sermon with Dr. Benjamin E. Mays at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC
The tumultuous days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley
What do Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, and Stockley Carmichael have in common? The internationalism of American civil rights activism.
A July 1964 protest at the United Nations headquarters in New York City began after the murder of 15-year-old African American James Powell by Thomas Gilligan, a white, off-duty police officer.
From Robert F. Williams and Huey Newton to President Richard Nixon, three moments where Black Liberation movements converged, and diverged, with Revolutionary China.
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