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Martin Luther King Jr.
The Little Rock Nine
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Movement "We had stopped at a spring. It was a very popular place that both blacks and whites would go to get water. We had waited there for about 30 minutes. But the people ahead of us, they were all white. When we had reached our turn, two white men grabbed my dad. They told him that he'd have to wait until all of the white people were finished. Dad said, 'We'll get our water another day or we'll come back.' They wouldn't let my dad leave. They said, 'You're going to stay here, and when all of the good white people have gotten their water, and when everyone is gone, then you can do what you want to.' When all the white people finished getting their water, Dad got his water. I remember him telling me, 'What you saw there was real hatred and prejudice. But this is not going to be forever . . . there's gonna come a day when this won't be anymore.'" -William Minner Before the 1960's, mistreatment of African Americans was a widely accepted practice.. Jim Crow laws, segregation, and discrimination were all very present. African Americans experienced injustices like Mr. Minner's and Emmet Till (a young boy who was wrongly accused and murdered in the South). Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and W. E. B. Duboise helped end this injustice with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and people like Rep. Edward Brooke helped by breaking racial barriers for African Americans in the decades afterwards.
Sign of the Times Civil Rights Collage
Sign of The Times Civil Rights Collage
Emmet Till
Edward Brooke
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