Birmingham in Alabama was one of the most segregated cities in the USA in 1963. In May that year thousands of black schoolchildren responded to a call from Martin Luther King to protest against segregation at the height of racial tensions. It became known as the Children's Crusade.
Gwendolyn Webb was 14 years old at the time and took part.
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'Birmingham in Alabama was one of the most segregated cities in the USA in 1963. In May that year thousands of black schoolchildren responded to a call from Martin Luther King to protest against segregation at the height of racial tensions. It became known as the Children's Crusade. Gwendolyn Webb was 14 years old at the time and took part.'
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Kennedy on Civil Rights, 11 June 1963: 'And when Americans are sent to Viet-Nam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.'
6 Oppositionists Richard Russell The patriarch of the obstructionist Southern caucus, and long-serving Senator for Georgia. Russell repeatedly marshalled the conservative Southern Democrats into...
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Pen portraits by Alex Browne, Assistant Editor at Made From History.
This week’s Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder overturned Section 4(b) of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which mandated federal oversight of changes in voting procedure in jurisdictions that have a history of using a “test or device” to impede enfranchisement. Here is one example of such a...
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An alleged literacy test, used in Louisiana in the 1960s for the purpose of disenfranchising black voters.
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In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South (Marian Holmes, Brian Wolly, Photos courtesy of Corbis, Getty Images and Library of Congress, Audio clips courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways).
Share your dream now and visit the King Center Digital Archive to see more than 10,000 documents from Martin Luther King's personal collection and from the civil rights movement!
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There are nearly a million documents associated with the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Website for the Malcolm X Project at Columbia University, an onging effort to reconstruct the life of the civil rights leader. Includes interviews with Malcolm's contemporaries, archival video footage of Malcolm, and FBI files.
The 1960 Civil Rights Act was born towards the end of 1958. Following the 1957 Civil Rights Act, Eisenhower introduced another civil rights bill in late 1958, which was his reaction to a violent outb
Find out more about the history of Martin Luther King Jr Assassination, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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A detailed site on the assassination of Martin Luther King.
On 21 March 1965, after a months-long battle, the freedom march finally set off from Selma to Montgomery to lobby for voter registration. Here’s how the Guardian and Observer covered the struggle
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On 21 March 1965, after a months-long battle, the freedom march finally set off from Selma to Montgomery to lobby for voter registration. Here’s how the Guardian and Observer covered the struggle.
It's 50 years since King gave that speech. Gary Younge finds out how it made history (and how it nearly fell flat)
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Gary Younge on the background to Martin Luther King's most famous speech. 'Fifty years on, it is clear that in eliminating legal segregation ... the civil rights movement delivered the last moral victory in America for which there is still a consensus ... The speech's appeal lies in the fact that, whatever the interpretation, it remains the most eloquent, poetic, unapologetic and public articulation of that victory.'
It’s 50 years since black leader Malcolm X was gunned down at a rally in Harlem. Here’s how the story played out in the pages of the Guardian and Observer
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'Intelligence demands the return of violence with violence.' Reports from the Guardian and Observer on the life of Malcolm X.
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