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The Freedom Riders challenged this status quo by riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation in seating. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement. They called national attention to the ...
Death in cabin near the 7 mile house, revealed “One Eyed Charlie,” a woman. The first woman to vote in the U.S. Nov. 3, 1868 In 2007, the Santa Cruz County Redevelopment Agency oversaw the completion of the Parkhurst Terrace Apartments, named for the stagecoach driver and located a mile along the old stage route from the place of his death.
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]
Flee North is a biography of Thomas Smallwood (1801–1883), a man who helped hundreds of African Americans escape slavery via the Underground Railroad.The author, Scott Shane, makes the claim that Smallwood was the first to coin the term "underground railroad" in a letter published in 1842.
The green plaque at Riding House Street, London, commemorates where Equiano lived and published his narrative.. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, [1] is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), an African from what is now Nigeria who was enslaved in childhood and eventually ...
Some reviewers praised the book. For instance, Kirkus Reviews found the book "An exciting, swift-moving narrative, replete with characters both dastardly and noble," [3] Publishers Weekly declared, "fans of American history will find it a moving and instructive drama," [4] Michelle Kung writing in Entertainment Weekly found that the author "shines an illuminating light on one of America's more ...
The lynching played a part in the founding of the Memphis chapter of the NAACP, one of the first in the South, by Robert Church Jr., Bert M. Roddy, and other black businessmen. At a meeting on 11 June 1917, there were 53 members, most of whom were businessmen and professionals; over the next few months, membership grew into the hundreds.
Biko covers the life of South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko from the view of his friend Donald Woods. The book is also critical of the white government of South Africa and the Apartheid system.