Quotes On Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights hero Claudette Colvin dies

Unsung US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies, aged 86

Claudette Colvin, who helped to ignite the modern civil rights movement in the US after refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus, has died aged 86.

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Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

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Claudette Colvin, civil rights trailblazer, dies at 86

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Civil rights hero Claudette Colvin dies at age 86

Claudette Colvin, a woman whose efforts against segregation on Montgomery's city buses predates even the iconic Rosa Parks, has died at age 86.

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US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dead at 86

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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

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Claudette Colvin, pioneering civil rights activist, dies at 86

Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

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Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer, dead at 86: foundation

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Claudette Colvin, Civil Rights Pioneer Who Refused To Give Up Seat On Segregated Bus, Dies

55 powerful Martin Luther King Jr. quotes to inspire you

“If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” — Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”

The Boston Globe

What if we are misremembering the civil rights movement?

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of the civil rights movement, when people in the 1950s and ...

The New York Times

The Civil Rights Movement Changed America. We Glorify It at Our Peril.

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history. By Matthew F. Delmont Matthew F. Delmont is a professor of history at Dartmouth and the author of the forthcoming ...