“We fought during the war for America, Mississippi included. Now, after the Germans and Japanese hadn’t killed us, it looked as though the white Mississippians would.” Medgar Evers
Ole Miss sign
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She had a name. It was Laura Nelson. http://www.nps.gov/nero/greatplaces/Shaped%20by%20Site-Kathleen%20Hulser.htm
Photo by Charles Moore. Two African American women being attacked
Children protesing in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama are led to jail
Segregated waiting room
Manager James Brock pours acid in the pool exclaiming that he’s “cleaning it” in St. Augustine Florida, 1964. Black and white swimmers are attempting to integrate the pool.
Separate, but unequal
James Meredith stopped at the steps of Ole Miss
White residents and students riot at Ole Miss
Newspaper editor L. Alex Wilson attacked in 1957, Little Rock Akansas
A group of white segregationists attack a group of blacks as they began to swim at the St. Augustine Beach, Fla., June 25, 1964.
On June 3, 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights workers arrived in Winona, MS by bus. They were ordered off the bus and taken to Montgomery County Jail. The story continues “…Then three white men came into my room. One was a state highway policeman (he had the marking on his sleeve)… They said they were going to make me wish I was dead. They made me lay down on my face and they ordered two Negro prisoners to beat me with a blackjack. That was unbearable. The first prisoner beat me until he was exhausted, then the second Negro began to beat me. I had polio when I was about six years old. I was limp. I was holding my hands behind me to protect my weak side. I began to work my feet. My dress pulled up and I tried to smooth it down. One of the policemen walked over and raised my dress as high as he could. They beat me until my body was hard, ’til I couldn’t bend my fingers or get up when they told me to. That’s how I got this blood clot in my eye – the sight’s nearly gone now. My kidney was injured from the blows they gave me on the back.”
http://www.beejae.com/hamer.htm
Marching for Civil Rights
Joined in solidarity
The Dogs of War
Silent Courage
Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel Khazan), David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil, the four North Carolina A & T State University students who conducted the Feb. 1, 1960 sit-in at the counter of the Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C.
Hosed to stop a peaceful demonstration
Separate, but unequal treatment
Battered but not broken
Professor Hellen Jean ONeal-McCrays mugshot at nineteen
See more of this College Professor’s civil rights courage here http://www.wilberforce.edu/news/faculty_79.html
A Mass of Humanity
A Memorial "From Revolution to Reconciliation" in Birmingham, Alabama
For more pictures and info on this park of remembrance in Birmingham, go here:
http://historytravels.blogspot.com/2008/03/from-revolution-to-reconciliation.html
Violla Liuzzo
Violla Luizzo, shot and killed by the Klan in 1965
Famous Quote “It’s everbody’s fight”
Freedom Riders killed by the Klan in 1963. From left to right, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner.
Four little girls killed in a church bombing, 1963
Proudly opposing civil rights
Resistance of civil rights
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