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Riding a Movement (The Story of The Montgomery Bus Boycott) Oct 03, 2022

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama in protest of bus segregation laws. The boycott is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the United States.
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
Rosa Parks: My Story
by Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott
https://www.britannica.com/event/Montgomery-bus-boycott
https://www.nps.gov/articles/montgomery-bus-boycott.htm
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Mother of the Civil Rights Movement (The Legacy of Rosa Parks) Sep 19, 2022

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Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, December 1955, triggered a wave of protests that reverberated throughout the United States and redirected the course of Black history.
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Rosa Parks: My Story
by Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rosa-Parks
https://www.biography.com/activist/rosa-parks
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Lost in the Movement (The Story of Claudette Colvin) Sep 05, 2022

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Claudette Colvin is an pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin
https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/claudette-colvin/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/claudette-colvin/
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Remembering the Legacy of Emmett Till Jun 27, 2022

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Emmett Louis Till, was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Till
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/
https://wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-turmoil/cold-war-beginnings/mamie-till-mobley/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
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Bonus - The History of Juneteenth (Remastered) Jun 19, 2022

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Juneteenth is annual holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, its a mix of June and Nineteenth, Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States, with increasing official recognition. It is commemorated on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865 announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger, proclaiming freedom from slavery in Texas.
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African Americans : a concise history
By Hine, Darlene Clark
https://www.history.com/news/what-is-juneteenth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Juneteenth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/juneteenth-holiday-five-myths/2020/06/18/4c19fff8-b0e1-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
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Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka Jun 06, 2022

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement. It helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” was, in fact, equal at all.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/347us483
https://www.britannica.com/event/Brown-v-Board-of-Education-of-Topeka
https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment
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Bonus - The History of Black Wall St. and The Tulsa Massacre (Remastered) May 30, 2022

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During the early 20th century, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its African American community known as the Greenwood District. It was home to a thriving business district and surrounding residential area that earned it the nickname “Black Wall Street.” In June 1921, a series of events caused a mob of white residents, some deputized and given weapons by city police, attacked Black residents and completely destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District. Join us as we talk about the events that caused the Massacre.
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Riot and remembrance
by James S. Hirsch
https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
https://www.britannica.com/event/Tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/racemassacre/tulsa-race-massacre-in-aftermath-no-one-prosecuted-for-killings-and-insurance-claims-were-rejected/article_3ba23c3c-886d-5821-9970-02153261960a.html
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The Black Panthers: The Story of the 761st Tank Battalion May 23, 2022

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The 761st Tank Battalion known as the “Black Panthers” were one of the three United States Army segregated combat tank battalion to serve during World War II. The unit spend over 183 consecutive days in combat.
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https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/black-panthers-761st-tank-battalion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/761st_Tank_Battalion_(United_States)
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/761st-tank-battalion-1942-45/
https://www.army.mil/article/1792/the_761st_tank_battalion_fighting_the_enemy_beating_stereotypes
https://www.history.com/news/761st-tank-battalion-black-panthers-liberators-battle-of-the-bulge
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Red Tails: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen May 09, 2022

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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group African Americans who enlisted to become America's first black military airmen, during a time when there were many people who thought that black men lacked the intelligence courage and skill for military service.
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https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/tuskegee-airmen
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tuskegee-Airmen
https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/blackwings/tuskegee.cfm
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The ATTACK on Black Veterans Pt. 2 (The World War 2 Years) Apr 25, 2022

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21 years after the end of the first great war with a new great war looming. A new generation of African Americans had to decide if fighting for democracy abroad would offer them another chance for equality at home. This is a episode about the experiences of 1.2 million African American soldiers during World War 2.
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https://time.com/6126195/black-veterans-gi-bill-world-war-two/
https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits
https://www.history.com/news/black-soldiers-world-war-ii-discrimination
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