Some Exhibits to Come: I Am Somebody! The Freedom Struggle

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I Am Somebody! The Struggle For Justice

Social Movements and Organizations of the 1960s, 70s and 80s

Turning the Tables on Civil Rights: The 1970s and 1980s

Bernard Lafayette: An Unsung Veteran of the Voting Rights Struggle

The Speech That Shocked Birmingham the Day After the Church Bombing

Bayard Rustin: Unsung Architect of the Civil Rights Movement

The Double Struggles of June Jordan, Poet and Social Activist

Bibliography – I Am Somebody! The Struggle for Justice

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The Civil Rights Movement

• Changing the Laws
• Protest, Nonviolence, and Civil Disobedience
• Fighting for Economic Equity
• Freedom Riders
• Freedom Schools
• Arts & Culture

Bayard Rustin and the 1963 March on Washington
Bayard Rustin and the 1963 March on Washington
March on Washington 1963
March on Washington 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
Pointing towards the assassin of Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis TN
Pointing towards the assassin of Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis TN
Opening Housing demonstration, Milwaukee WI 1967
Opening Housing demonstration, Milwaukee WI 1967

Black Power and Black Nationalism

• Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
• The Black Panther Party
• Afrocentrism

 

Black Feminism

Mule trains carried people from the South to the Poor People's March on Washington 1968
Mule trains carried people from the South to the Poor People's March on Washington 1968
Black Panther Party leaders Bobby Black and Huey Newton
Black Panther Party leaders Bobby Black and Huey Newton called for an end to police brutality in black neighborhoods. The Black Panthers provided many free services, such as breakfasts for kids, rides to prisons for family visits with inmates, classes, and sickle-cell testing.
Angela Davis, Black Panther and feminist, speaks at a rally at UC Berkeley
Angela Davis, Black Panther and feminist, speaks at a rally at UC Berkeley
Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper and civil rights leader, speaks at the convention of the Mississippi Freedom Democrats
Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper and civil rights leader, speaks at the convention of the Mississippi Freedom Democrats
Harry Belafonte, famous singer and financial supporter of the Civil Rights movement
Harry Belafonte, famous singer and financial supporter of the Civil Rights movement
Jane Fonda, actor and supporter of the Civil Rights movement
Jane Fonda, actor and supporter of the Civil Rights movement

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