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  1. I Was Not Saved to Run
    date December 25, 1956map Jefferson, Alabamatags alabama, Violence, Race Relations, African American, Civil Rights

    It was Christmas 1956.  Taking the place of presents and songs, Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and family woke up to the sound of sixteen dynamites exploding from underneath their home.  By looking at photographs of the damage, you would think everything within ten feet of the home was dead.  However, Shuttlesworth and his family reemerge unharmed.  Shuttlesworth being a religious man gave God...

  2. A Campaign for Freedom
    date February 7, 1942 to February 14, 1942map Allegheny, Pennsylvaniatags World War II, Civil Rights, Double V Campaign, Freedom

                February 7, 1942, was a day that changed America. Segregation and discrimination had reached a point that was no longer tolerable, and according to the Pittsburgh Courier, it was time for a campaign. The “Double V Campaign,” as it was called, stood for two victories for black Americans: a victory at home and a victory abroad.              This campaign was orchestrated...

  3. NAACP's Litigation Strategy in Prince Edward County
    date May 1, 1948 to December, 1956map Prince Edward, Virginiatags Civil Rights, Prince Edward, Law

    The NAACP's litigation strategy against school segregation went through a drastic change during the summer of 1950. Instead of working within the confines of Plessy v. Ferguson, which declared the constitutionality of the "separate but equal doctrine", the NAACP decided that the time had come to force the courts to reconsider segregation. Prior to 1950, the NAACP only tried cases where they could...

  4. Bayard Rustin and Israeli Air Support
    date June 28, 1970map New York, New Yorktags Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights, Pacifism

    In 1970 Bayard Rustin gathered many civil rights leaders and black public officials in support of an appeal to Washington. This appeal pushed for the U.S. government to supply Israel with fighter jets for protective purposes. Their appeal, in the form of a full-page ad in the New York Times, was sponsored by the A. Philip Randolph Institute of which Rustin was the executive director. This action...

  5. Prince Edward Free Schools Association
    date August, 1963 to August, 1964map Prince Edward, Virginiatags Desegregation, Civil Rights, Education

    "We will oppose…with every facility at our command, and with every ounce of our energy, the attempt being made to mix the white and Negro races in our classrooms. Let there be no misunderstanding, no weasel words, on this point: we dedicate our every capacity to preserve segregation in the schools." - Virginia Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr. Dr. Neil V. Sullivan arrived in Prince Edward...