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The address is an excerpt from a 1954 lecture Marshall gave at Dillard University.
Thurgood Marshall, "Excerpts from the Edwin Rogers Embree Memorial Lectures of Thurgood Marshall," presented at Dillard University, Spring 1954, New Orleans, in Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, eds. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal (Oxford: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999).
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School Desegregation Movement:
Brown vs. The Board Of Education
Written in response to the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
Ella J. Baker, "Bigger Than a Hamburger." Southern Patriot 18 (1960). Excerpted in Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, eds. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal (Oxford: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999).
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Letter by SNCC leader Robert Moses written from a Mississippi jail cell.
Robert P. Moses, Letter from a Mississippi Jail, 1961. Reprinted in Peter B. Levy, ed. Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992), 94-95.
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Lyrics to the spiritual "We Shall Overcome."
"We Shall Overcome"[lyrics of a traditional song]. In Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, eds. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal (Oxford: Rowan & Littlefield, 1999).
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In 1963, John Lewis, chairman of SNCC, gave an address at the March on Washington.
John Lewis, Speech delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Courtesy of U.S. Representative John Lewis.
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The March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act
"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" [lyrics of a traditional civil rights song].
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round [lyrics of a traditional civil rights song], reprinted in Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, eds. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal (Oxford: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999).
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Mississippi Freedom Summer
Brown v. Board of Education.
U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
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School Desegregation Movement:
Brown vs. The Board Of Education
The Southern Manifesto.
From Congressional Record, 84th Congress Second Session. Vol. 102, part 4 (March 12, 1956). Washington, D.C.: Governmental Printing Office, 1956. 4459-4460.
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School Desegregation Movement:
Brown vs. The Board Of Education
"Negroes' Boycott Cripples Bus Line."
From the New York Times, January 8, 1956.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Basis of Black Power.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: The Basis of Black Power.
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Student Protest
Women in the Movement.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: Women in the Movement.
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Student Protest
Letter from Birmingham Jail.
An open letter by Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 16, 1963.
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The Birmingham Desegregation Campaign
The 1963 Inaugural Address of Governor George C. Wallace.
Delivered on January 14, 1963 in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The Birmingham Desegregation Campaign
Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights.
A speech by President John F. Kennedy on June 11, 1963.
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The Birmingham Desegregation Campaign
"I Have a Dream."
A speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
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The March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act of 1965; August 6, 1965.
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Civil Rights, Voting Rights, and the Selma March
"Power Anywhere Where There's People."
A Speech By Fred Hampton delivered at Olivet Church, 1969.
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Urban Unrest and Socioeconomic Conditions
What We Want; What We Believe.
October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program.
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Black Power
GIs United Against the War in Vietnam: Statement of Aims.
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Black Opposition to Vietnam
The Gary Declaration: Black Politics at the Crossroads.
National Black Political Convention, 1972.
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New Black Politics
Barbara Jordan: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment.
Delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee.
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New Black Politics
