The twenty most influential heroes and icons of the 20th century.
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Rosa Parks The Woman Who Changed a Nation By Kira Albin, interview conducted in 1996 Photos courtesy of Monica Morgan Photography and ZondervanPublishingHouse When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man forty years ago on December 1, 1955, she was tired and weary from a long day of work. At least that's how the event has been retold countless times and recorded in our history ...
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Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore tells the story of America's first civil rights martyr.
MLK Day on the Net Holidays on the Net Additional Holiday Celebrations peo ples 1997 Zoe Levenglick-Volpe (age 11) Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. It was an established rule in the American south (at that ...
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Culture & Change Home Women Who Changed History Home Rosa Parks, The Mother of the Modern-day Civil Rights Movement, describes her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helps students understand the importance of every individual citizen in a democracy. Read through her story and then express how you would feel if you were in her situation. (Vocabulary words are in bold.) For Grades 7-8 ...
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In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges Hall became the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school. Hall discusses her memories of the first day she entered her new school in New Orleans, her first year when she was in a class of one, and her efforts today to improve education.
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Biography and interview with Rosa Parks.
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Information about Civil Rights activist James Meredith, including a biographical and critical article, a list of published works, and other information resources.
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In the media smear campaign against Lani Guinier, President Clinton's nominee as assistant attorney general for civil rights, her views were not only distorted, but in many cases presented as the exact opposite of her actual beliefs.
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Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book Cover of Vietnam , a comic written by Julian Bond and published in 1967, after he was expelled from the Georgia House of Representatives for opposing the war in Viet Nam. It was illustrated by T.G. Lewis. Copyright 1967 by Julian Bond. Open the comic book. This graphic, made available by the Sixties Project, is copyright (c) 1991 by the Author or by Viet Nam ...
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Robert Moses was born in 1935 in Harlem. He had two brothers and his family was poor. Because Moses had strong academic skills he was able to attend a competitive private high school. He then attended Hamilton College and went on to earn a master's degree in philosophy from Harvard. During his studies, Moses traveled abroad and was exposed to the ideals of pacifism. He also became acquainted ...
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frontline: the two nations of black america: interview with Julian Bond
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Roy Wilkins discusses civil rights and his relationship with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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