Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

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The Sit-In Movement

On October 19th, 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King and 51 others were arrested in Atlanta for refusing to leave their seats at downtown department store lunch counters.
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Andrew Young

Young reflects on the circumstances that inspired the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s “Birmingham Campaign” and Dr. King’s iconic “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
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U.S. Olympic Sprinters Protest at the 1968 Olympics

On Oct. 16, 1968, two U.S. athletes used an Olympic medal ceremony to protest racial inequality in America.

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2:21

James Meredith Enrolls at Univ. of Mississippi

Moments In Civil Rights History

2:43

The Sit-In Movement

Moments In Civil Rights History

6:05

Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

4:34

The Sit-In Movement in Fayetteville, N.C.

The Rev. William Moore

4:30

The Birmingham Campaign

Andrew Young

7:22

Ready to Get My Freedom

Janice Wesley Kelsey

4:48

Returning to Mississippi

Rev. Edwin King

2:28

U.S. Olympic Sprinters Protest at the 1968 Olympics

Moments in Civil Rights History

Opening Doors and Minds: Honoring Denver’s First Tenured Black Teacher

An article on Marie Greenwood

A Pioneering Pediatrician Desegregates Philadelphia Boarding School

An article on Dr. Albert Gaskins

In the Footsteps of the 'Little Rock Nine'

An article on Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver

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