Tennessee
Lunch Counter Sit-InsFebruary 1960
Lunch Counter Sit-InsFebruary 1960
Big Colored ParadeNovember 28, 1961 The Big Colored Parade took place on November 28, 1961, in San Francisco. The protestors marched from Market Street to City Hall both in solidarity with the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama but also for equality in San Francisco. Unfortunately, like many events in the Civil Rights Movement, I could […]
Adkin High School Protest1951 A completely student-led desegregation protests at Adkin High School, over seven hundred students walked out of class to protest the unequal facilities between their all-black school and the all-white school in Kinston, North Carolina. After picketing outside for weeks they successfully obtained updates to their school. However, the school remained segregated […]