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This
Day in Civil Rights History (This Day in History)
Randall Williams (January 31, 2006)
This Day in Civil Rights History, by renowned civil-rights activist Randall Williams, is a
day-by-day survey of the people, places, and events that impacted the civil rights
movement and shaped the future of the United States. Flip to any date and you’ll find
fascinating, informative facts and anecdotes:
February 1, 1960 — Four African-American college students in Greensboro, North
Carolina, entered the local Woolworth’s department store, sat down at the lunch
counter, and demanded to be served. This courageous act launched the student sit-in
movement throughout the region.
March 2, 1955 — Nine months before the historic arrest of Rosa Parks,
fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for violating the segregation laws on a
Montgomery, Alabama, bus.
September 30, 1962 — James Meredith became the first African-American student allowed
to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
November 4, 1960 — The U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Gomillion v. Lightfoot,
establishing an important precedent in the voting rights of African-American citizens. |
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