Category - Events

Events

Jim Crow Laws

What was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was a set of laws sponsored by Southern States that required the...

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Southern Manifesto

What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...

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Emmett Till

His mother insisted in displaying his son’s body in a glass topped casket so that the world could...

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Sit-In Movement

  Many African Americans inspired by the , the unjust murder of and the courage of had been...

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Freedom Rides

  In March 1961 the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) decided to test the Boynton v. Virginia...