The Walk to Freedom was a mass march during the Civil Rights Movement on June 23, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. It drew crowds of an estimated 125,000 or... 17 KB (1,513 words) - 03:56, 22 February 2024 |
began to subside. Yet Bridges remained the only child in her class, as she would until the following year. Every morning, as Bridges walked to school... 27 KB (2,877 words) - 06:09, 6 April 2024 |
The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama,... 9 KB (1,069 words) - 13:55, 31 March 2024 |
refrain in Detroit, in June 1963, before 25,000 people in Detroit's Cobo Hall immediately after the 125,000-strong Great Walk to Freedom on June 23,... 54 KB (5,537 words) - 02:44, 25 January 2024 |
"World War II and the Post War Years - NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom | Exhibitions - Library of Congress". Library of Congress. February 21... 37 KB (4,856 words) - 22:36, 21 April 2024 |
Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in... 38 KB (4,420 words) - 03:50, 3 March 2024 |
Freedom Walk: Mississippi Or Bust, University Press of Mississippi, 2003 Activists take walk to remember, Gadsden Times, April 24, 2008 Freedom Walk 2008... 9 KB (1,076 words) - 15:21, 28 April 2024 |
strength to social movements, allowing oppressed groups to reinforce their shared identity and communicate their demands for equity. Freedom Singing,... 14 KB (1,675 words) - 20:07, 14 March 2024 |
was left with "no alternative". "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the... 28 KB (3,287 words) - 10:02, 4 April 2024 |
Elijah Muhammad (category Converts to Islam) turned over leadership of the growing Detroit group to Elijah Muhammad, and the Allah Temple of Islam changed its name to the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad... 38 KB (4,332 words) - 21:48, 24 April 2024 |
Harry Belafonte (section Rise to fame (1956–1958)) Birmingham, Alabama jail and raised $50,000 to release other civil rights protesters. He contributed to the 1961 Freedom Rides, and supported voter registration... 102 KB (9,621 words) - 21:12, 28 April 2024 |
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D... 101 KB (12,294 words) - 19:22, 14 April 2024 |
shoes to replace the tattered footwear of Montgomery's black citizens, many of whom walked everywhere rather than ride the buses and submit to Jim Crow... 55 KB (6,204 words) - 10:23, 26 April 2024 |
" Presidential Studies Quarterly 45.2 (2015): 289–309. Taylor, Jon E. Freedom to Serve: Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981 (Routledge, 2013)... 14 KB (1,419 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2024 |
Southern Black freedom fighter Mabel Williams", Facing South, Institute of Southern Studies, retrieved January 19, 2017 "Committee to Combat Racial Injustice... 15 KB (1,946 words) - 12:59, 16 December 2023 |
James also worked at a sawmill. Evers and his siblings walked 12 miles (19 kilometers) a day to attend segregated schools; eventually Medgar earned his... 49 KB (4,793 words) - 00:09, 23 April 2024 |
Emmett Till (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content) Emmett moved to Detroit, where she met and married "Pink" Bradley in 1951. Emmett preferred living in Chicago, so he returned there to live with his... 144 KB (17,549 words) - 06:22, 28 April 2024 |
convinced to join the lawsuit by a childhood friend, Charles Scott. Brown's daughter Linda Carol Brown, a third grader, had to walk six blocks to her school... 97 KB (11,110 words) - 17:17, 21 March 2024 |
Parks' acclaim". Chicago Tribune. p. 2. Carson, C. (January 1, 2005). "To Walk in Dignity: The Montgomery Bus Boycott". OAH Magazine of History. 19 (1):... 38 KB (4,420 words) - 21:28, 27 April 2024 |
Luther King Jr., born January 15, 1929). In contrast to his peacemaking brother, Martin, A. D.—according to his father—was "a little rough at times" and "let... 11 KB (1,150 words) - 17:48, 18 February 2024 |
it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the "wrong kind of person" for me to marry. I believe... 60 KB (6,298 words) - 00:26, 16 March 2024 |
is ready and preparing to show him the way to the Oval Office. Cecil tells him that he knows the way and walks down the hall to the office. Forest Whitaker... 44 KB (3,681 words) - 13:54, 28 March 2024 |
rights of freedom and American citizenship cannot receive from the nation that efficient protection which heretofore was unhesitatingly accorded to slavery... 41 KB (4,679 words) - 21:23, 17 April 2024 |