Everyday lives in the civil rights movement in the southern United States

The civil rights movement in the southern United States was a social movement from 1954 to 1968 that aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement, most commonly affecting African Americans. Led by Martin Luther King Jr. and others, it began a campaign of nonviolent protests and civil disobedience, including the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to 1956.

2 articles, 1 video, 1 book · about 2 hr 36 min of reading and viewing

The reading path

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   Remembering the Civil Rights Movement...With Comics - JSTOR Daily · JSTOR Daily · 3 min read

   Oral histories of the civil rights movement come as videos, transcripts, and recordings, offering a more immediate, personal take on history. They can feel more like chats between friends than textbooks.

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   the civil rights movement in the southern united states · Wikipedia · 60+ min read

   Mamie Till, Emmett Till's mother, decided she wanted to "let the people see what I have seen" after identifying his remains. She had his body taken back to Chicago and displayed in an open casket, where many thousands of visitors arrived to show their respects. In the Selma voting rights movement, James Bevel, director of the Selma Movement, organized a plan to march from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital. On March 7, 1965, Hosea Williams of the SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC led 600 people on the 54 miles (87 km) march.

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   An unsung hero of the civil rights movement - Christina Greer · YouTube · 5 min watch

   Christina Greer details Bayard Rustin's life of advocacy as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and the challenges he faced as an openly gay Black man. The video covers his role as chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

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   The Help · Bookshop.org

   The Help by Kathryn Stockett describes Aibileen, a Black maid raising her seventeenth white child, and the loss of her son after his bosses looked the other way; their stories show how women are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times.

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