The year 1960 was an important one throughout the South. It witnessed the beginning of the sit-in movement. Sit-ins began in Greensboro, North Carolina. They spread quickly and eventually included such places as Rock Hill and Orangeburg in South Carolina. What happened in the Orangeburg sit-ins sheds light on many key aspects of the Civil […]
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The Springfield Massacre of 1908
When you hear mention of Springfield, Illinois, is the Springfield Massacre the first thing to come to mind? Unlikely. If you are like most people, it’s Abraham Lincoln. What probably doesn’t come to mind is the racial massacre that took place there in 1908. The facts of the Springfield Massacre are these. Two African Americans […]
The March on Washington Had Other Speakers
Most of us remember the 1963 March on Washington for one thing only—Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. If you’re like me, you went to school assemblies about this as a kid. You heard the speech, or at least some of the famous lines from it, about King’s dream for America. You […]