Above is a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. with his children. Read about about them in the gallery below.
Below are some images from the era of segregation (when black people could not use white people's toilets, hospitals, theaters, hotels, schools, etc.), and from the era of Civil Rights (when black people began working to get equal rights with white people, especially in the 1950s and 1960s).
Click on a picture below to see the images larger and read my captions!
Below are some images from the era of segregation (when black people could not use white people's toilets, hospitals, theaters, hotels, schools, etc.), and from the era of Civil Rights (when black people began working to get equal rights with white people, especially in the 1950s and 1960s).
Click on a picture below to see the images larger and read my captions!
Here are six videos about the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Watch them!
1) 42 (2013) trailer: a movie about Jackie Robinson becoming the first black man to play Major League Baseball in 1947.
2) The Rosa Parks Story (2002) trailer: a movie about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott (1955-1956).
3) The Long Walk Home (1990) trailer: a movie about brave people supporting the bus boycott.
4) Selma (2014) trailer: a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. leading a march to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to get voting rights for African Americans.
5) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" (1963) speech in Washington, DC. Listen to his voice, especially from 1:50 to 3:20!!!
6) Loving (2016) trailer: a movie about a real black and white couple (Richard and Mildred Loving) who wanted to marry and live in Virgina when black-white marriages were illegal there; in 1967 the US Supreme Court used the Lovings' case to make inter-racial marriages legal in all 50 states.
1) 42 (2013) trailer: a movie about Jackie Robinson becoming the first black man to play Major League Baseball in 1947.
2) The Rosa Parks Story (2002) trailer: a movie about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott (1955-1956).
3) The Long Walk Home (1990) trailer: a movie about brave people supporting the bus boycott.
4) Selma (2014) trailer: a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. leading a march to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to get voting rights for African Americans.
5) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" (1963) speech in Washington, DC. Listen to his voice, especially from 1:50 to 3:20!!!
6) Loving (2016) trailer: a movie about a real black and white couple (Richard and Mildred Loving) who wanted to marry and live in Virgina when black-white marriages were illegal there; in 1967 the US Supreme Court used the Lovings' case to make inter-racial marriages legal in all 50 states.
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