Lorraine and Eugene Williams, the Charlottesville couple whose civil rights work helped desegregate city schools and whose business focused on fair and affordable housing, are the recipients of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 award for diversity.
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The Youngest of the Little Rock Nine Speaks About Holding Onto History
Carlotta Walls LeNier, whose school dress is in Smithsonian, says much was accomplished and now we need to hold onto it.
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The Forgotten Chinese-American Family that challenged Jim Crow | OZY
On the morning of Sept. 25, 1924, two sisters arrived for their first day of school in the small town of Rosedale, Mississippi. Martha and Berda, ages 9 and 11, were quickly summoned to the principal’s office, where they were informed that they were being expelled. Why?
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Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle – The New York Times
“You know the definition of a Southern moderate? That’s a cat that’ll lynch you from a low tree.”
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I Could Use My Voice | The Washington Post
Freedom Rider. Labor leader. Whistleblower. Tax reformer. Activists — in their many forms and with their varied causes — have long challenged and reshaped our social and political consciousness.
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Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus | NPR
Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955.
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Compromise of 1877: Set Stage for Jim Crow Era – ThoughtCo.
Jim Crow Segregation Ruled South for Nearly a Century
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Remembering Beaches as Battlegrounds for Civil Rights – The Weekly Challenger
In 1960, black protesters in Biloxi, Mississippi, were attacked while demanding equal access to public beaches. Now the remaining activists are working to preserve the history of the “wade-ins” that opened the space to everyone.
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If You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelly – Public Books
William Melvin Kelley, the experimental novelist and filmmaker—who mastered and reinvented a kind of midcentury literary style crafted from a colorful array of language and perspectives—died in Manhattan on February 1, 2017, at the age of 79.
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