The Detroit Walk To Freedom was a mass march during the Civil Rights Movement that took place on June 23, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan. It drew an estimated 125,000 participants and spectators, which made it the single largest civil rights demonstration in the nation’s history prior to the March on Washington in Washington D.C. in August 1963. Continue reading DETROIT WALK TO FREEDOM (1963)
The Biloxi Wade-In Civil Rights protests were conducted by local African Americans on the beaches of Biloxi, Mississippi between 1959 and 1963. Physician Gilbert R. Mason Sr. led the demonstrations to desegregate beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Biloxi Wade-Ins was the first major Civil Rights campaign in Mississippi. Continue reading BILOXI WADE-INS (1959-1963)
The St. Augustine Movement was a series of civil rights protests in St. Augustine, Florida between 1963 and 1964. They were led by local branches of the NAACP Youth Council and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The Movement influenced the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Continue reading THE ST. AUGUSTINE MOVEMENT (1963-1964)
The Little River County Race War began in March 1899 in southwestern Arkansas and quickly spilled over into neighboring northeastern Texas after an African American man named General Duckett murdered a white planter, James Stockton, at his home on March 18, 1899. After hiding in the Red River bottoms, Duckett surrendered on March 21, 1899. After the surrender, the Sheriff took him to the crime scene near Rocky Comfort in Little River County and escorted him to Richmond, the county seat. In some accounts, a white mob which was estimated at around 200, took Duckett from the Sheriff and hanged him. Before he was lynched, he allegedly confessed to murdering Stockton according to these accounts. Continue reading Revisit: LITTLE RIVER COUNTY RACE WAR
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