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Tag: Civil Rights Movement

Photo: All-Star Triangle Bowling Alley (now closed; formerly called All-Star Bowling Lanes) in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Credit: Ammodramus; Wikimedia Commons.

Segregation Protest: Police Killed 3 Black Students in S.C.

By Tony Pettinato on February 8, 2021

An article about the “Orangeburg Massacre” on 8 February 1968, when police fired on black students in South Carolina protesting a segregated bowling alley... (Read More)

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act on 2 July 1964. Among the guests behind him is Martin Luther King Jr. Credit: White House Press Office; Cecil Stoughton; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: Supreme Court Upheld 1964 Civil Rights Act

By Tony Pettinato on December 14, 2020

The Supreme Court ruled on 14 December 1964 that the Civil Rights Act was constitutional, prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations... (Read More)

Photo: "State Troopers Swing Clubs to Break Up Selma Demonstration," Aberdeen Daily News (Aberdeen, South Dakota), 8 March 1965, page 1

On This Day: Police Attacked Civil Rights Marchers on ‘Bloody Sunday’

By Tony Pettinato on March 7, 2019

An article about “Bloody Sunday,” when police in Selma, Alabama, attacked a peaceful march of African American demonstrators on 7 March 1965... (Read More)

Photo: this four-seat section of lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth is at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. The rest sits in its original footprint inside the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Credit: RadioFan; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: Lunch Counter ‘Sit-in’ Galvanized Civil Rights Movement

By Tony Pettinato on February 1, 2019

An article about the “Greensboro Sit-In,” when four African American students sat down at the segregated lunch counter in a Woolworth’s store in NC... (Read More)

Photo: marchers resting during the Selma-to-Montgomery Civil Rights March, 21 March 1965. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

1965 Newspaper Coverage of MLK-Led Selma-to-Montgomery March

By Tony Pettinato on March 21, 2018

Newspaper coverage of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama on 21 March 1965... (Read More)

Photo: Autherine Lucy in a press conference with Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Thurgood Marshall, Director and Special Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, 2 March 1956. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

On This Day: African American Fights Exclusion from Univ. of Alabama

By Tony Pettinato on February 7, 2018

An article about Autherine Lucy, who in February 1956 became the first African American student to attend a white university or public school in Alabama... (Read More)

Photo: Malcolm X waiting for a press conference to begin on 26 March 1964. Credit: Marion S. Trikosko; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Black Activist Malcolm X Assassinated

By Tony Pettinato on February 21, 2017

An article about the assassination of Black activist Malcolm X on 21 February 1965... (Read More)

Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on 28 August 1963. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration; Wikimedia Commons.

Today We Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on January 16, 2017

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr... (Read More)

Photo: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D. H. Lackey after being arrested for boycotting public transportation, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1956. Credit: Associated Press; Wikimedia Commons.

Rosa Parks Arrest Sparks Montgomery Bus Boycott

By Tony Pettinato on December 1, 2016

An article about the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott... (Read More)

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