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priscilla 1Milestones in The Civil Rights Movement
September 7th 2009 10:58
In today's post we take a look at some of the pivotal moments in the civil rights movement in the United States during the 50s and 60s. These images and information sourced from Life.com. Delve more into civil rights history here.
A Montgomery, Ala., bus is nearly empty during a black boycott of bus companies in 1956. Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat to a white man led to the boycott and a Supreme Court victory.
Elizabeth Eckford is turned away from Central High School by Arkansas National Guardsmen, 1957. President Eisenhower later sent the U.S. Army to escort Eckford and other black students to school.
The final words of MLK's now-legendary speech ran thus: "When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'"
Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act, 1964. It "will not only cost you the South, it will cost you the election," Georgia Sen. Richard Russell told LBJ.
Mildred and Richard Loving embrace after the Supreme Court rules they can be legally married, 1967. Afterward, anti-miscegenation laws across the country began to be struck down.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Elizabeth Eckford Turned Away From Little Rock Central High School
'I Have a Dream': The Speech
1964 Civil Rights Act
The Lovings Celebrate Their Supreme Court Victory
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