Tag Archives: SCLC

Orangeburg Massacre

Posted on February 11, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Orangeburg Massacre was a shooting of student protesters that took place on February 8, 1968, on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. Nine Highway Patrolmen and one city police officer opened fire … Continue reading →

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Memphis sanitation strike

Posted on May 12, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Memphis sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968, in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker.  The deaths served as a breaking point for more than 1,300 African American men from the Memphis Department … Continue reading →

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How the Chicago Freedom Movement Made Way for the Fair Housing Act

Posted on September 30, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Chicago Freedom Movement march, South Kedzie Avenue, August 5, 1966 “History teaches us about important lessons, people, and events. It shapes a nation. It tells us who we are and where we came from. It tells us about our past … Continue reading →

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

Posted on August 6, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

In this Aug. 6, 1965, photo, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President’s Room near the Senate Chambers on Capitol Hill in Washington. “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is … Continue reading →

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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement

Posted on April 26, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, … Continue reading →

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Fair Housing Act of 1968

Posted on April 1, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In commemorating the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Fair Housing Act this year, it may be useful to look more deeply into some of the details of American housing history from this period. Fifty years on, it is … Continue reading →

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Birmingham campaign

Posted on March 16, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

High school students are hit by a high-pressure water jet from a fire hose during a peaceful walk in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. As photographed by Charles Moore, images like this one, printed in Life, galvanized global support for the … Continue reading →

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We Shall Overcome: The Power Of Protest Songs

Posted on March 4, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… The idea of protest singers as finger-picking folkies had been long cemented in popular culture, going back to the 60s, when Bob Dylan brought songs such as ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ to the masses, spawning countless copyists voicing … Continue reading →

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Blues greats re-emerge from the pages of history

Posted on December 9, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In early 1963, an east coast guitar player and fan of the blues called Tom Hoskins found himself poring over an old road atlas, looking for a place called Avalon somewhere in Mississippi. Hoskins was on the trail of a … Continue reading →

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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

Posted on November 29, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers’ murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 … Continue reading →

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Albany Movement

Posted on September 22, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voter’s rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. Local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement … Continue reading →

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1968 Miami riot

Posted on July 30, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A group of black organizations in Miami called for ‘a mass rally of concerned Black people,’ to take place on August 7, 1968, at the Vote Power building in Liberty City, a black neighborhood. Sponsors were the Vote Power League, … Continue reading →

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Bloody Tuesday

Posted on March 26, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bloody Tuesday was a march that occurred on June 9, 1964 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. The march was both organized and led by Rev. T. Y. Rogers and was to protest against segregated drinking fountains and … Continue reading →

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Jo Freeman

Posted on September 22, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Jo Freeman (born August 26, 1945) is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties and the civil rights … Continue reading →

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How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act

Posted on July 4, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“On the winter of 1963, as the Civil Rights Act worked its way through Congress, Justice William Brennan decided to play for time. The Supreme Court had recently heard arguments in the appeal of 12 African American protesters arrested at … Continue reading →

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March Against Fear

Posted on June 4, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

June 1966: Meredith March Against Fear “The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 6, 1966, intending to make a solitary walk from … Continue reading →

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Half the Way with Mao Zedong

Posted on May 27, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The American left has never produced a group more self-critical than Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In the years since the organization’s 1969 collapse, its former members have produced an endless stream of mea culpas. Some of this has … Continue reading →

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The Selfless Servant Leadership of the African-American Women of the Civil-Rights Movement

Posted on April 27, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Diane Nash, right, represented the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at the White House in 1963. “During the civil-rights movement, African Americans led the fight to free this country from the vestiges of slavery and Jim Crow. Though they all too … Continue reading →

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Kudzu, Mississippi’s Radical Underground Newspaper, 1968-1972

Posted on March 29, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Subterranean News from the Heart of Old Dixie,’ the radical counterculture newspaper published 1968-1972 in Jackson, Mississippi, presented by the Student News Project. The Kudzu was among the first underground papers published in the Deep South… in easily the last … Continue reading →

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The Bobby Kennedy Pathway

Posted on March 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Robert Kennedy campaigning in Philadelphia in 1968. “… But a half-century ago, a champion of civil rights offered a third approach: a liberalism without elitism and a populism without racism. In a remarkable 82-day campaign, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ran … Continue reading →

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Memories of Mississippi – Danny Lyon

Posted on March 4, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Danny Lyon outside a movement headquarters in Albany, Georgia, 1962 “It was the summer of 1962. I had just finished my third year at the University of Chicago. My 650cc Triumph motorcycle was damaged, leaving me grounded and bored. One … Continue reading →

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“Even poverty is ancient history”: Resurrection City, 1968 By Jill Freedman

Posted on February 9, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Demonstrators in the streets, Poor People’s Campaign, Washington D.C., 1968. “… I knew I had to shoot the Poor People’s Campaign when they murdered Martin Luther King Jr. I had to see what was happening, to record it and be part … Continue reading →

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We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (1960)

Posted on January 26, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released on Candid Records in 1960. It contains a suite which composer and drummer Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a … Continue reading →

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Neshoba: The Price of Freedom

Posted on January 15, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Promoting the awareness of dangerous facts without editorializing becomes an aggressive political act in Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, co-directed by frequent collaborators Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano. Excavating the onerous past of Philadelphia, Mississippi, the film is less about … Continue reading →

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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Posted on November 11, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Romare Bearden: Pittsburgh Memory, 1964, mixed media collage of printed papers and graphite on board, 8½ by 11¾ inches. “The show opens in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights movement and its dreams of integration. In its wake … Continue reading →

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Poor People’s Campaign

Posted on October 13, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Poor People’s Campaign, or Poor People’s March on Washington, was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States. It was organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), … Continue reading →

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The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin (1963)

Posted on August 17, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Fire Next Time is a 1963 book by James Baldwin. It contains two essays: ‘My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,’ and ‘Down At The Cross — Letter from a Region … Continue reading →

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“I Have a Dream” – Martin Luther King Jr. – August 28, 1963

Posted on August 5, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘I Have a Dream’ is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism … Continue reading →

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Jack Newfield

Posted on July 17, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Jack Abraham Newfield (February 18, 1938 – December 21, 2004) was an American muckraking journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker, activist, and fierce champion of underdogs. Newfield wrote for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Protest, 1965-1975 by Tom Hayden

Posted on July 14, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The era of protest against Vietnam – 1965-75 – was unique as the emergence of a nationwide peace movement on a scale not seen before in American history. There were previous war resisters, for example, the Society of Friends, the … Continue reading →

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St. Augustine movement

Posted on July 5, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A state police officer with club in hand overtakes a white segregationist, as African Americans attempted to swim and were attacked by a large group of whites at St. Augustine Beach, Florida, on June 25, 1964. The state police arrested … Continue reading →

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Nina Simone – “Mississippi Goddam” (1964)

Posted on June 22, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Racial discrimination is a problem of the present. With the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump filling our tv screens and newspapers with racist remarks and comments, and as police violence towards black people keeps on claiming lives, Nina Simone’s outrage … Continue reading →

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Fannie Lou Hamer

Posted on May 23, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fannie Lou Hamer (/ˈheɪmər/; born Fannie Lou Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting rights activist, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and philanthropist who worked primarily in Mississippi. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi‘s … Continue reading →

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Operation Breadbasket

Posted on May 9, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Operation Breadbasket was an organization dedicated to improving the economic conditions of black communities across the United States of America. Operation Breadbasket was founded as a department of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1962, and was operated by … Continue reading →

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