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)
The Supreme Court ruled on 14 December 1964 that the Civil Rights Act was constitutional, prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations... (Read More)
An article about “Bloody Sunday,” when police in Selma, Alabama, attacked a peaceful march of African American demonstrators on 7 March 1965... (Read More)
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)
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)
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)
An article about the assassination of Black activist Malcolm X on 21 February 1965... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr... (Read More)
An article about the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott... (Read More)