Hairspray
Native son John Waters filmed the original Hair...
by spewker
School Board refuses to rent Benson High School for event, 1948
The International Labor Defense Organization wa...
by jason
Birthplace-Civil rights warrior
DePaul Hospital, July 24, 1952. Later to fight...
by rogerjolley
Commerce attacks Free Speech
1984 to present, well placed captains of commer...
by rogerjolley
Federal Court House
Street singing, display of art ruled as fully p...
by rogerjolley
Abyssinian Baptist Church
The Abyssinian Baptist Church was constructed i...
by tracy_the_astonishing
I Have a Dream
1963/08/28. The March on Washington for Jobs an...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964/06/02. President Johnson signs the Civil R...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Civil Rights Murders
1964/08. The bodies of three civil-rights worke...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Watts
1965/08/11-21. The Watts riots left 34 dead, mo...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Voting Rights Act
1965/08/10. Congress passes the Voting Rights A...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Bloody Sunday
1966/03/07. State troopers violently attack pea...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Malcolm X Assassinated
1966/02/12. Malcolm X, black nationalist and fo...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Black Power Speech
1966/04/19. Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Ali Conscientious Objector
1967. Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali refuses...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Civil Rights Act of 1968
1968/04/11. President Johnson signs the Civil R...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Martin Luther King, Jr Assassinated
1968/04/04 Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassin...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Civil Rights Act of 1991
1991. President Bush signs the Civil Rights Act...
by tracy_the_astonishing
46,000 Protest Confederate Flag
2000/01/17. More than 46,000 protesters rally i...
by tracy_the_astonishing
Edgar Ray Killen is Convicted
2005/06/21. Edgar Ray Killen, the ringleader of...
by tracy_the_astonishing