After the success of the Little Rock Nine, Bates continued to work on improving the status of Black people in the South. Her influential work with school integration brought her national recognition. In 1962, she published her memoirs, The Long Shadow of Little Rock. Eventually, the book would win an American Book Award.
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February 23, 2021
RUBY BRIDGES
Ruby’s birth year coincided with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which ended racial segregation in public schools.
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February 20, 2021
WILLIAM O’ NEAL
While the story of Hampton’s death is fairly well known, O’Neal’s involvement in the matter is often oddly overlooked.
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February 7, 2021
CLIP: POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, USA, 1963
The Alabama state police brutally attacked the marchers, using fire hoses, dogs, and tear gas
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December 24, 2020
JOHN ROBERT LEWIS
US Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights legend and longtime congressman, died at the age of 80 on July 17, 2020
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September 3, 2020
NINA SIMONE
By the 1980s, her selection of songs “ranged from rock and roll to Beatles and Bee Gees tunes,” including her rendition of the song To Love Somebody.
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August 2, 2020
HARRY BELAFONTE
His many firsts in the overturning of numerous racial barriers in the world of culture in America are legend.
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August 2, 2020
I Have A Dream – Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
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August 2, 2020
March on Washington, 1963
He didn’t take a knee, he protested peacefully, but they killed him anyway.
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July 19, 2020
Birmingham Church Bombing
acts of racial terrorism, to destabilise the descendants of Africans and delegitimise their efforts to obtain equality.