Black History Month 2017: My Research on the Civil Rights Movement (Updated with all Ten Links)
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It’s Black History Month! Every year for the past 10 years (missed a few), I have researched topics in Black History and shared them with my friends. I have researched black poets, black inventors, black organizations, black millionaires, and also some African History and African countries. Usually, I have some idea of what I will research by December. But life had me too busy. Until January.
At my annual King Thing, the Sunday before we celebrate his birthday, I had the honor of having a woman present who had been part of the Civil Rights Movement, who had had the experience of going to jail for protesting, who had heard Dr. King speak on several occasions. And I thought – HEY! Do I really know enough about what happened? We focus on Rosa Parks and Dr. King, but there was SO much more. All across the South, and in parts of the north, people were organizing. There were lawsuits, marches, boycotts, sit-ins. Laws were changed, but the South fought back. It was only with the televising of the most heinous acts that brought the injustices to the public eye and white people began to cry out over the drastic nature of how we were mistreated, enough to push for enforcement of laws already on the books.
So, I spent the month studying the Civil Rights Movement. And over the course of the month, I presented what I found to friends and family. And now I present it to you.
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/black-history-month-2017-the-civil-rights-movement/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-2-the-naacp-equalization-strategy/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-3-the-naacp-legal-defense-fund-beyond-brown/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-4-civil-rights-lawyers-across-america/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-5-going-back-in-time-the-13th-14th-and-15th-amendments/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/174/ (Bayard Rustin, CORE, and Non-violent protest)
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-8-acts-of-congress/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-9-atrocities-in-alabama/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/bhm-2017-day-10-murder-in-mississippi-last-one/