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From then to now..
These quotes from H. Rap Brown and Marting Luther King Jr. could have been brought to light when the Baltimore protests were going on in 2015. That's what I thought about when I laid my eyes on them.. -
Beginning of the Museum
This is the beginning of the Civil Rights exhibit. A quote from Dr. King. -
Colored
Colored, if you didn't know, is what African Amercians were called from the 1960's on back. Blacks and whites were segregated. "Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a starkly unequal world of disenfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence." (History.com staff) -
Cases like..(1954)
"Over one-third of states segregated their schools by law.
At the time of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, 17 southern and border states, along with the District of Columbia, required their public schools to be racially segregated. An additional four states—Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico and Wyoming—permitted local communities to do the same." (History.com staff) -
Emmett Till 1955
"On August 24, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till reportedly flirted with a white cashier in Money, Mississippi. Four days later, two white men tortured and murdered Till. His murder galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement." (History.com staff) -
March On Washington (August 1963)
"On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people, both black and white participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the largest demonstration in the history of the nation’s capital and the most significant display of the civil rights movement’s growing strength." (history.com staff) -
to March on Washington
This is the appeal from Eugenen Blake, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr. and stating what the March on Washington is about.. -
The Day of the March
"After marching from the Washington Monument, the demonstrators gathered near the Lincoln Memorial, where a number of civil rights leaders addressed the crowd, calling for voting rights, equal employment opportunities for blacks and an end to racial segregation." (History.com staff) -
Top Picture
"Rabbi Joachim Prinz, President of the American Jewish Congress, speaking at the March." American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY -
Top Right
"John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, speaking at the Lincoln Memorial during the MArch on Washington." Bettmann/Corbis -
"I Have a Dream"
A Dream Dr. King was the last person to speak at the March on Washington, closing with his smazing "I Have a Dream" speech, that is used in songs today..such as Common's "A Dream". -
MLK Assassination (1968)
"On April 4, 1968, the world was stunned and saddened by the news that the civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot and killed on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had gone to support a sanitation workers’ strike." -
The Wagon (April 9, 1968)
This is "The Wagon" that carried Martin Luther King. Held by his close friends, Andrew Young, Hosea Williams; others, and his brother. Mahalia Jackson also sang King's favorite hymn, "Precious Lord." -
In the early 1965
"The historic march, and King’s participation in it, greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the South, and the need for a Voting Rights Act, passed later that year." (History.com staff) -
Malcolm X (1965)
Malcolm X unlike Marting Luther King, was about violent protesting than peaceful. "Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights." (History.com staff)
