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The Civil Rights Movement Archive (CRMA) refers to both an online collection of materials about the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s (also known as the "Freedom Movement"), as well as the organization that created and maintains it. The collection provided by the CRMA includes materials from many parts of the civil rights ...
The Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and spend 40 to 60 days in Parchman Penitentiary. [12] May 17 – Nashville students, coordinated by Diane Nash, John Lewis, and James Bevel of the Nashville Student Movement, take up the Freedom Ride, signaling the increased involvement of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...
Journalist, one of the main leaders of the abolitionist movement in Brazil. Eleanor Roosevelt: 1884 1962 United States: women's rights and human rights activist both in the United States and in the United Nations: Alice Paul: 1885 1977 United States: Women's Voting Rights Movement leader, strategist, and organizer Marcus Garvey: 1887 1940 Jamaica
White opposition to black voter registration was so intense in Mississippi that Freedom Movement activists concluded that all of the state's civil rights organizations had to unite in a coordinated effort to have any chance of success. In February 1962, representatives of SNCC, CORE, and the NAACP formed the Council of Federated Organizations ...
The Journey of Reconciliation, also [1] called "First Freedom Ride", was a form of nonviolent direct action to challenge state segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States. [2] Bayard Rustin and 18 other men and women were the early organizers of the two-week journey that began on April 9, 1947.
As southern governments imposed harsh new racial restrictions and as nightriders tried to terrorize those who refused to comply, black figures like Henry Adams and Benjamin "Pap" Singleton started ...
Hartford, Bruce, "Freedom Rides of 1961. We'll Never Turn Back: History & Timeline of the Southern Freedom Movement, 1951–1968" (PDF), Civil Rights Movement Archive "The Road to Change: Freedom Riders, 1961", The Birmingham News, Feb 26, 2006, archived from the original on 2010-12-27
There are a handful of biographies you can read to learn more about Baker’s activism, including “Ella Baker: Freedom Bound,” “Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement” and “Ella Baker ...