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The man who inspired the Freedom Rides, the violent protest to desegregate public transportation throughout the South has died. Bruce Boynton, a Black attorney from Selma, Alabama, set the stage for the protests when he was a law student at Howard University in Washington, D.C. On a bus ride home,
Bruce Boynton, Plaintiff in Landmark Civil Rights Case, Dies at 83
He was a Black man who wanted to sit in the white section of a bus terminal restaurant. The case reached the Supreme Court.
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Even in a time when traveling is difficult, you can still take a civil rights tour. The tour company Road Scholar, rsadventures, offers a five-day deep dive into the civil rights movement, all online. The experience includes field trips and discussions with experts and former civil rights activists, lasting two
Adventures Online: The Civil Rights Movement
Learn from historians and activists about the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s and today during five days of online lectures, virtual field trips and interactive discussions.
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Detroit visitors can roll by the city’s civil rights sites on a new interactive bike tour. The 20-stop, 17-mile route, created by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, begins and ends at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The tour can be accessed from a smartphone or
Interactive bike tour to roll through civil rights sites
History buffs can roll around sites in Detroit as part of an interactive civil rights bike tour
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One of the most haunting images of the civil right era shows a young woman screaming at 16-year-old Elizabeth Eckford as she walks to her first day of class at Little Rock’s Central High School. A half century later you can still feel the hatred faced by the Little Rock
Sixty-three years ago today, Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine black students to further the civil rights movement by enrolling at the historically segregated Central…
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The U.S. had Rosa Parks. In the UK, Roy Hackett and two other black men led their own bus boycott in Bristol, England. Launched the same day as the March on Washington, the 1963 protest was not about riding public transportation. It was about hiring Blacks to work for the
Bristol bus boycott: Meet the faces behind the UK's own 1963 civil rights movement
It used to be legal in the UK to discriminate against someone because of their skin colour - these people helped change that.
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A new documentary debut dives into the story of James Meredith debuts on the Smithsonian channel tonight. Meredith, a Black civil rights figure who integrated the University of Mississippi, was also shot on a march to publicize civil rights struggles. Meredith has always been hard to categorize, though. Eventually, he
Before Ole Miss integration was over, federal troops were called in, hundreds were injured, and two had died. All so James Meredith could go to school.
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If you missed the moving & inspiring John Lewis documentary Good Trouble this summer, tune in this Sunday to CNN, which is airing it without charge. And if it encourages you to learn more, here’s a story I wrote about how to visit the places John Lewis made history bit.ly/30rWxk6
How to watch CNN Films' 'John Lewis: Good Trouble'
The CNN Films documentary premieres on CNN Sunday, September 27, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Sixty-five years after Emmett Till’s death, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is moving to preserve the site of his funeral. The Chicago church building is one of 11 endangered historic sites announced today. The Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ was the site of “pivotal events in American
The 2020 America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list vividly demonstrates the richness and power of the many different stories and places that make up our shared American identity and values.
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When Black residents of Montgomery Alabama, started the famed bus boycott only one white minister joined the cause. Robert Graetz, pastor at the city’s Black Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church, helped organize the boycott and even drove people to and from work. He died this week. During the boycott, his family’s
Robert Graetz, minister who helped organize Montgomery Bus Boycott, dies at 92
Robert Graetz was the only white minister who supported the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott, which made him a target of segregationists and sparked a career dedicated to social justice.