CBS REPORTS Airs an Episode Titled ‘The New Left’
The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a …
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 Becomes Law
From the May 28, 2012, issue of NR. This magazine has long specialized in debunking pernicious political myths, and Jonah Goldberg has now provided an illuminating …
Martin Luther King Delivers His Iconic “I Have a Dream” Speech on the Steps at Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and it has since become …
Civil Rights and NAACP leader Medgar Evers is Shot to Death in the Driveway of his Home in Jackson, Mississippi
In the ensuing daylight hours, a high-powered rifle is discovered stashed in the brush near where the killer had lain in wait for the ambush. …
The 1st Freedom Ride Left Washington DC to Challenge the Southern States’ Non-Enforcement of the Supreme Court’s ruling that Segregation on Buses was Unconstitutional
During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals. …
Ruby Bridges Becomes the First African-American Child to Attend an All-White Public Elementary School in the American South.
Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954) was six when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school on November 14, …
The Civil Rights Era Began with a Lunch Counter Sit-In at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina
Four North Carolina black college students staged the first Greensboro sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest segregation on Feb. 1, …
Rosa Louise Parks, a Resident of Montgomery, AL Refused to Obey Bus Driver James Blake’s Demand that she Relinquish Her Seat to a White Man.
She was arrested, fingerprinted, and incarcerated. When Parks agreed to have her case contested, it became a cause célèbre in the fight against Jim Crow laws. Her …
Claudette Colvin Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Her Bus Seat in Montgomery, AL
Claudette Colvin was an important figure in the civil rights movement. She was born on September 5, 1939. At birth, she was adopted by C. …
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren Delivered the Unanimous Ruling Ending the Plessy v. Ferguson “Separate But Equal” Ruling
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned …