Jo Ann Robinson: Organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the...
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Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]osa Parks was nationally recognized...
The March on Washington: Historic Rally for Civil Rights
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington D.C. The march was...