I never fully realized the monumental role that massive numbers of children played in civil rights protests. Law enforcement arrested and jailed children by the thousands for days, and sometimes months, and their involvement helped to enable one of the greatest legal and social assaults on racism in the 20th century—the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The U.S. Has Been Silencing Black Girls’ Voices for Decades | Teen Vogue
In this op-ed, Juvenile Law Center’s Jessica Feierman and Girls for Gender Equity’s Ashley Sawyer talk about the systemic punishment and arrest of Black girls who speak out about discrimination.
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