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TRAVELING THE ROAD TO CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA

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By: Corey T. Waters

IMAGES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The A&T Four: Ezzell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain

FEBRUARY ONE, 1960

GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Eighteen days after the March on Washington, on a Sunday morning of September 15, 1963, 4 girls were killed in a church bombing at 10:19 am while changing clothes in the church basement. There are still traces of where the bomb destroyed part of the church. This 1963 event horrified the world on a global scale.

THE WALES WINDOW FOR ALABAMASixteenth Street Baptist Church

A gift to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabamafrom the people of Wales, UK, in expressing sympathy and concernAfter the September 15, 1963 bombing, funds were raised and JohnPetts commissioned to design window. 4 Little Girls: Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair.

Kelly Ingram Park Birmingham, Alabama’s

The site of peaceful and turbulent demonstrations in the 1960’s. Today known as “A Place of Revolution and Reconciliation, it anchors much of Birmingham’s historic civil rights district. There are several statues found throughout the park to commemorate scenes of violence that occurred in the area and the four tear drop memorial, devoted to the 4 little girls that were killed in the nearby Sixteenth Street Church bombings.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthplace located on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.

The inside sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist ChurchDr. King, his father and grandfather served as pastor of the church congregation.

EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH

The historic church was recently restored to appear as it did in the 1960’s when King was co-pastor. The above pictures represent then and the present.

Rosa Parks Library & Museum

Located at Troy State University in Montgomery, Alabama, houses a dynamic interactive memorial for Rosa Parks,“The Mother of The Civil Rights Movement”. It is at this site where Mrs. Parks engaged in a simple act of civil disobedience that launched a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement.

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church

The church where Dr. King served as pastorFrom 1954-60 and led the Montgomery bus Boycott. Inside the church is featured a wallmural memorializing several key individuals that participated during the Civil Rights Move-ment. Across from the church sits the state captiol building that passed legislation duringthe time period.

Selma (meaning “high seat” or throne) was incorporated in 1820.Selma is considered to be the birthplace of the Voting Rights ActOf 1965.

Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church &Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument

Headquarters during the Voting RightsMovement, this church became the Starting point for the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery March. It was organized by freedmen after the civil war. The MLK, Jr. Monument stands in front of The church, where the names of thoseWho died for the dream are inscribed in stone.

The Edmund Pettus BridgeThe site of the Civil Rights Movement known as The Selma to Montgomery March. Hundreds of African Americans protested for the right to vote, in what would later be known as “Bloody Sunday”. This protest stirred events which led to the passageOf the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Today the 54 mile trail serves to commemorate the events of Sunday, March 7, 1965.

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 & Public Law 88-352

National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel

The site of Dr. King’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. You’ll experience the sights, sounds and emotions of the Movement through its exhibits and programs.

The Civil Rights Museum

Montgomery, Alabama

Southern Poverty Law Center

CITATIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Mighty Times: The Children’s March. Produced by Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston. 40 minutes. 2005.

2. February One: The Greensboro Sit-In. Produced by Dr. Steven Channing and Rebecca Cerese. 61 minutes. 2004.

www.teachingtolerance.orgwww.voterights.orgwww.nps.gov/semowww.bcri.orgwww.splcenter.orgwww.tsum.edu/museumwww.nps.gov/maluwww.birminghampledge.orghttp://www.februaryonedocumentary.comhttp://www.februaryonedocumentary.com/museum.htmlhttp://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/about/about.asp 3. Juan Williams. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965.

New York, NY, Penguin Books, 1987.4. 4 Little Girls. Produced by Spike Lee and Sam Pollard.1996.5. Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs

1960-1966. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 1997 [CD Recording].6. Freddie Parker. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Learn More, Teach

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