As a sophomore, Paul Robeson was excluded from the Rutgers Football team because another team refused to play against a Black player.
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Students and faculty from Tougaloo College held a sit-in at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Four African-American North Carolina A&T University students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s whites-only lunch counter.
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James Meredith attempted to register at the University of Mississippi.
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Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest.
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Rutherford Hayes became the 19th President of the United States with a devastating impact on Reconstruction.
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A white mob seized three African American business men in Memphis, Tennessee and lynched them without trial.
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Fourteen Black football players at the University of Wyoming were fired when their coach learned they wanted to wear black armbands during a game against Brigham Young University.
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Opening of the Malcolm X Liberation University in Durham, North Carolina.
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Police used firehoses to attack South Carolina college students engaged in a peaceful protest against segregation. The judge sends their NAACP lawyer to jail for “pursuing his case vigorously.”
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Louisville police officers opened fire in the home of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, shooting and killing her.
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Thousands of Black leaders gathered to create a cohesive political strategy at the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana.
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Freedom’s Journal was the first African American owned and operated newspaper in the United States.
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The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre left 23 Black people dead when an armed white mob attacked an ongoing trial.
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With a list of five demands, Black and Puerto Rican students at City College of New York (CCNY) orchestrated a campus-wide closure that lasted more than two weeks.
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Book — Non-fiction. 2022. By Jon N. Hale. 348 pages.
An examination of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era, illustrating how Black youth supported liberatory movements and inspired their elders across the South.
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Robert Lewis was brutally beaten and hanged from a tree by a crowd of nearly 2,000 people after being accused of assaulting Lena McMahon, a local white woman. No one was held accountable for his murder.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met briefly by chance as they were waiting for a press conference.
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The New York Police Department falsely accused four African American teenagers and one Latino teenager who became known as the “Central Park Five.”
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Inspired by the First Maroon War, a group of enslaved Ghanaian rebels in Jamaica sought to overthrow the British colonialists and create an independent Black nation on the island.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Dr. Martin Luther King. 2016. 320 pages.
Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King’s revolutionary vision, underscoring his identification with the poor, his unapologetic opposition to the Vietnam War, and his crusade against global imperialism.
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Book — Non-fiction. By SNCC Digital Gateway. 2024. 22 pages.
Provides concrete ways for people to engage with and learn about SNCC’s work and the role of women within SNCC, explore primary source materials, and connect contemporary issues in their own lives and communities to central themes in SNCC’s history.
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Article. By Howard Zinn. From Chapter 6 of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
Zinn describes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) voting rights campaign called Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Miss.
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Timothy Hood, a veteran of the U.S. Marines, was killed for removing a Jim Crow sign.
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In the face of white supremacists’ threats, a Black Detroit judge upheld the law and acted for equal justice for Black churchgoers detained unlawfully after a deadly police shoot-out.
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