#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/03/2010 #2

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Chancellor Harold L. Martin, Sr., at center of banner, leads a commemorative march on Monday, Feb. 1st, 2010, retracing the route the Greensboro four walked to F. W. Woolworth fifty years ago to begin the sit-in movement at the Greensboro, NC, lunch counter. The action sparked a movement of nonviolent protest across the South.

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#2 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/16/2016 #9

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/16/2016 #3

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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/27/2017 #5

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#5 Click this link to see Blog page --> 07/02/2017

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#6 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/06/2017 #3

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#7 Click this link to see Blog page --> 09/04/2018

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#8 Click this link to see Blog page --> 08/04/2019

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#9 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/28/2019 #4

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#10 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/28/2019 #1

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#11 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/04/2020 #5

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#12 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/04/2021 #5

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#13 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/04/2021 #4

In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all white Central High School in Little Rock. #LittleRock9 #CivilRights

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#14 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/05/2021 #12

In 2010, Jefferson Allison Thomas, one of nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in America’s first major battle over school segregation, died in Columbus, OH, at age 67. #CivilRights #LittleRock9

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#15 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/09/2021 #5

In 1957, President Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower (David Dwight Eisenhower) signed the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights and which also established a Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice. #DwightEisenhower #CivilRights

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#16 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/10/2021 #8

In 1963, twenty black students entered Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace. #CivilRights

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#17 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/15/2021 #8

In 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. (three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.) #CivilRights

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#18 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/23/2021 #7

In 1957, nine black students who’d entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside. #LittleRock9

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#19 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/24/2021 #8

In 1957, Elizabeth Ann Eckford on her first day Integrated into a Little Rock High School, 1957. #ElizabethEckford #LittleRock9

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#20 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/05/2021 #8

In 2011, Rev. Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth (Freddie Lee Robinson), 89, a civil rights activist who endured arrests, beatings and injuries from fire hoses while fighting for racial equality in the segregated South of the 1960s, died in Birmingham, AL. #FredShuttlesworth #CivilRights

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#21 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/24/2021 #9

In 2005, civil rights icon Rosa Louise McCauley Parks died in Detroit at age 92. #RosaParks #CivilRights

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#22 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/01/2021 #7

In 1955, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, AL, city bus; the incident sparked a year long boycott of the buses by blacks. #RosaParks #CivilRights

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#23 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/01/2022 #11

In 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, where they’d been refused service. Greensboro Sit-Ins #CivilRights #Woolworth atlasobscura.com

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#24 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/07/2022 #8

In 1965 Bloody Sunday #CivilRights

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#25 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/07/2022 #9

In 1965 Bloody Sunday #CivilRights #MLK

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#26 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/07/2022 #10

In 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday”. Bloody Sunday #CivilRights

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#27 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/21/2022 #12

In 1965, civil rights advocates demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third successful walk march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. #CivilRights #MLK I’m guessing success was measured by no arrests or beatings?

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#28 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/04/2022 #9

In 1961, the first group of Freedom Riders left Washington, DC, to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals. #CivilRights

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#29 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/14/2022 #6

In 1961, Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, AL. #CivilRights

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#30 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/20/2022 #10

In 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, AL, prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order. #CivilRights

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#31 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/24/2022 #6

In 1961, a group of Freedom Riders was arrested after arriving at a bus terminal in Jackson, MS, charged with breaching the peace for entering white designated areas. (They ended up serving sixty days in jail.) #CivilRights

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#32 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/06/2022 #5

In 1966, black activist James Howard Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration. #JamesMeredith #CivilRights

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#33 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/19/2022 #8

In 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster. #CivilRights

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#34 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/21/2022 #3

In 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were slain in Philadelphia, MS; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. (41 years later on this date in 2005, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter; he was sentenced to sixty years in prison, where he died in January 2018.) #FreedomSummerMurders #CivilRights

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#35 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/02/2022 #5

In 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress. #LBJ #CivilRights

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#36 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/04/2022 #7

In 1964, the bodies of missing civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney Three murdered civil rights activists found dead in an earthen dam in Mississippi. #CivilRights

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#37 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/11/2025 #10

In 1963, the University of Alabama was desegregated as Vivian Malone and James Hood became the first two Black students allowed to enroll in classes; Alabama Governor and segregationist George Corley Wallace Jr initially blocked the doorway to the auditorium where course registration was taking place, delivering a speech before deferring to National Guard orders to move. #GeorgeWallace #CivilRights

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#38 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/06/2025 #8

In 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) signed the Voting Rights Act, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. #LBJ #CivilRights

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