Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter enrolled their children in schools in Sunflower County, Mississippi that had been illegally denied to African Americans. In retaliation, they were evicted from the land they sharecropped and their home was riddled with bullets.
Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of civil rights activists marched on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Continue reading
U.S. District Judge issued an injunction ordering police in Grenada, Mississippi to stop interfering with lawful protest. This ruling followed weeks of arrests and beating of demonstrators who had been attempting to desegregate businesses in the town.
Continue reading
Treaties were signed to turn over control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. to Panama.
Continue reading
The Attica Prison Uprising began when prisoners took control of part of the prison in Upstate New York.
Continue reading
The National Chicano Moratorium March was held to protest the Vietnam War and Latino journalist Ruben Salazar was killed.
Continue reading
People’s Tribunal on killing of three young men at Algiers Motel in Detroit.
Continue reading
When the “Fort Hood 43” refused to board a plane to Chicago for riot-control duty against fellow African Americans, their non-violent act became one of the largest demonstrations of dissent in U.S. military history.
Continue reading
WWII veteran Ozell Sutton was denied service at the Arkansas Capitol cafeteria after visiting the building to collect voter registration materials.
Continue reading
Jonathan Myrick Daniels was shot dead in broad daylight in Lowndes County after being released from jail for picketing stores that denied entry to African Americans.
Continue reading
Book — Non-fiction. By Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert. 2021.
This biography of Rosa Parks accessibly examines her six decades of activism, challenging young readers’ perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the Civil Rights Movement.
Continue reading
Nine Black activists were arrested in London, England and charged with inciting a riot when they led over 150 protestors in a march against police harassment.
Continue reading
Herbert Lee, a farmer who helped voting rights activists, was murdered by a Mississippi state legislator in broad daylight.
Continue reading
Fourteen people removed and burned 10,000 draft cards from the Milwaukee draft board.
Continue reading
Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.
Continue reading
The Young Lords were established in Chicago, Illinois in 1968, led by a street activist named Cha Cha Jiménez, who organized the group to fight local gentrification, police brutality, and racism.
Continue reading
Book — Non-fiction. By Katie McCabe and Jabari Asim. 2020. 208 pages.
A young readers' adaptation of Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights, the memoir of activist lawyer Dovey Johnson Roundtree.
Continue reading
Teaching Activity. By Doug Sherman. Rethinking Schools. 4 pages.
The author describes how he uses biographies and film to introduce students to the role of people involved in the Civil Rights Movement beyond the familiar heroes. He emphasizes the role and experiences of young people in the Movement.
Continue reading
Overview of Native American activism since the late 1960s, including protests at Mt. Rushmore, Alcatraz, Standing Rock, and more.
Continue reading
Book — Non-fiction. By Hodding Carter II. Reprinted 2016. 176 pages.
Profile of a white family persecuted for being hospitable to civil rights workers.
Continue reading
The Black Panther Party sought justice for African Americans and other oppressed communities through a combination of revolutionary theory, education, and community programs.
Continue reading
Draft cards burned in solidarity with David Miller, a Catholic pacifist who was one of the first to publicly burn his draft card.
Continue reading
The second anti-war Moratorium occurred with over 500,000 marching in Washington, D.C. and demonstrations throughout the country and the world.
Continue reading
The Albany Movement engaged multiple civil rights organizations and students in the fight for desegregation and voting rights.
Continue reading
