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Its Black History Month! At my annual King Thing, I had the honor of having a woman present who had been part of the Civil Rights Movement, who had had the experience of going to jail for protesting, who had heard Dr. King speak on several occasions. And I thought HEY! Do I really know enough about what happened? We focus on Rosa Parks and Dr. King, but there was SO much more. All across the South, and in parts of the north, people were organizing. There were lawsuits, marches, boycotts, sit-ins. Laws were changed, but the South fought back. It was only with the televising of the most heinous acts that brought the injustices to the public eye and white people began to cry out over the drastic nature of how we were mistreated, enough to push for enforcement of laws already on the books.
So, I spend the month studying the Civil Rights Movement. And over the course of the month, I presented what I found to friends and family. And now I present it to you.
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/black-history-month-2017-the-civil-rights-movement/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-2-the-naacp-equalization-strategy/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-3-the-naacp-legal-defense-fund-beyond-brown/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-4-civil-rights-lawyers-across-america/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-5-going-back-in-time-the-13th-14th-and-15th-amendments/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/174/ (Bayard Rustin, CORE, and Non-violent protest)
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-8-acts-of-congress/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/bhm-2017-day-9-atrocities-in-alabama/
https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/bhm-2017-day-10-murder-in-mississippi-last-one/
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And this:
Exactly. History is concerned primarily with the celebrities in any particular struggle. History shows the achievement rather than the overall struggle.
Very well written.