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Martin Luther King, Jr. (center), with other civil rights supporters lock arms on as they lead the way along Constitution Avenue during the March on Washington, Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (left of centre) and Malcolm X (right) waiting for a press conference, 1964.
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In 1958, Mildred Loving, a black woman, and her white husband, Richard Loving, went to Washington to get married. After they returned to Central Point, police raided their home and arrested them
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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
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Police began to move in the area of 12th Street and Clairmont as hundreds of people fill the street with violence gaining momentum during the 1967 Detroit Race Riot.
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Selma March Infographic. Selma to Montgomery marches, March 1965. Alabama. United States.
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Rosa Parks 1913-2005, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Fingerprinting Parks is Deputy Sheriff D .H. Lackey. December 1, 1955.
Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
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David Cameron. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom talk during the G8 Summit at the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, 2013
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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
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Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
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Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland
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Claudette Colvin: References & Edit History

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Add new Web site: NPR - Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin. Jan 02, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN - Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Now she’s fighting to get her record expunged. Nov 22, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC - Claudette Colvin: The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks. Oct 11, 2024
Anniversary information added. Sep 01, 2024
Add new Web site: Zinn Education Project - March 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat. Aug 08, 2024
Add new Web site: The Gurdian - Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks. Jun 28, 2024
Revised to modernize usage, add quotation from Colvin on why she refused to give up her seat. May 16, 2024
First paragraph modernization. May 13, 2024
Add new Web site: The MY HERO Project - Claudette Colvin. Apr 05, 2024
New article added. Sep 29, 2023
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