By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more conservative ones. Improvements in the African American community were reversed as states began to pass their own laws discriminating...
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Sit-In Movement
Many African Americans inspired by the , the unjust murder of and the courage of had been...
Emmett Till
His mother insisted in displaying his son’s body in a glass topped casket so that the world could...
Jim Crow Laws
What was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was a set of laws sponsored by Southern States that required the...
The Albany Movement
In 1961 Albany, Georgia, was a small town of 56,000 people where 40% were African American. In...
