September 15, 1963, Four girls: Addie Mae Collins (aged 14), Denise McNair (aged 11), Carole Robertson (aged 14), and Cynthia Wesley (aged 14) were killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church
1965 Alabama
Freedom Riders
Whites protesting integration equating it to communism
Freedom Riders
Birmingham, AL
In 1956, Rosa Parks'was arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white patron on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. The bus driver had Mrs. Parks arrested, she was found guilty of disorderly conduct and that lead directly to the bus boycott, the civil rights movement, and civil disobediance.
Bertha Gilbert, 22, is led away by police after she tried to enter a segregated lunch counter in Nashville, Tenn., in this May 6, 1964, file photo.
Albany, GA 1962
On the orders of Bull Connor, high-pressure firehoses are used against young demonstrators
Young non-violent warriors under arrest
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth leading marchers in prayer just before they are arrested in early April.
Birmingham 1963
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