Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

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Inspiration for Other Movements

Rep. Judy Chu

Black Children Arrested & Assaulted in Birmingham

Moments In Civil Rights History

Violence at the Children's March

Mamie Chalmers

The Birmingham Campaign

Andrew Young

Birmingham Children's March: The Backstory

Thomas Gardner Jr.

A Quota for Black Students

Dolores Brewer

'We Don't Have Any Colored Students Here'

Elizabeth Williams

Protesting for Equal Pay

Janie Young Price

Access and Aspiration: A Nurse’s Fight for Acceptance

Elizabeth Williams

Elizabeth Williams' teenage years were filled with aspirations of upward mobility, achievement and a career in nursing; but she would rapidly discover discrimination that cast her as unwanted in a field on which her heart was set.

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Access and Aspiration: A Nurse’s Fight for Acceptance

Elizabeth Williams