Oliver L. Brown’s daughter, Linda, discusses her memories of life in Topeka, Kansas before and after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision on May 17, 1958. Cheryl Brown Henderson, Linda’s sister, also comments on the history of civil rights and discusses the future of racial equality.
Legal scholars discuss the lasting impact that the Brown V. Board of Education case has had on the U.S. court system. They explain how the ruling protected the intended purposes of the constitution and ultimately “expanded the role of fairness” in future decisions.
Several legal scholars, including the dean of Howard Law School and a retired Supreme Court justice, remember the Brown v. Board of Education decision. They discuss where they were when it was announced, how people reacted to the ruling, and the impact that the case had on igniting “the modern … Continue reading
Fifty years after the Aniston, Alabama attack on a bus that protesting Freedom Riders were on, the survivors give their personal accounts. They explain such emotional things as the sights of the tragedy, as well as trying to figure out the least painful way to die. The young Freedom Riders … Continue reading
Freedom Riders fifty years after the nonviolent movement tell their personal and powerful stories about the suffering they endured while peacefully protesting the fact that desegregation laws were not being enforced in the southern states. The stories show the courage that the Freedom Riders upheld and their determination to not … Continue reading
Janie Forsyth Mckinney tells a powerful story about witnessing a Freedom Rider’s bus being firebombed by local Klan members at just 12-years-old. McKinney describes people being mad at her as she bravely rushed to help the victims of the tragedy. The event occurred on May 14, 1961.
Jazz musician Billy Taylor remembers coming into contact with Bull Connor, the police chief in Alabama during the 1963 African American Civil Rights protests. Taylor was hired to play at a benefit concert set up by Martin Luther King Jr.
A foot soldier in the Children’s Crusade movement for African American Civil Rights explains how she first got interested in becoming part of the movement as well as how she learned about the importance of keeping the demonstrations nonviolent with singing and prayer.
People who participated in the Children’s Crusade of 1963 give their firsthand accounts of what it was like on that day when they tried to lead a nonviolent march for the American civil rights movement’s Birmingham Campaign. They discuss their instructions to keep the demonstration nonviolent despite the police dogs, … Continue reading
Sarah Collins Rudolph gives her firsthand account of her survival of the Birmingham church bombing that the Ku Klux Klan were responsible for in 1963. The tragic event became a landmark moment in the Civil Rights efforts.
