Mr. Denson

[American Voices with Alicia Menendez @AliciaOnMSNBC]

We remember the life and legacy of Judith Heumann, “the mother of the disability rights movement.” Heumann’s contributions to national disability rights laws were immense.

[Judy Heumann Legacy @judithheumann]

Thank you to everyone who has followed and supported Judy throughout her lifetime of advocacy. May her memory be for a blessing.

https://t.co/BzQSXux9bj

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

78 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must remember. | #Auschwitz78

[CRMC @CivilRightsCntr]

#OTD in 1955, sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks four days earlier, the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott began.

It was a 13-month mass protest of racial segregation The Montgomery Improvement Association coordinated the boycott under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

A reminder of just how close slavery is in a society that had slavery longer than it has had freedom. Also: What an amazing life. https://t.co/dJCtNluV4j

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

59 years ago today…#NeverForget

Carole Robertson
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Denise McNair
September 15, 1963
16th Street Baptist Church
Birmingham, Alabama

#FourLittleGirls #DomesticTerrorism #RacismKills #WhiteSupremacyMurders

[Andrew Leblanc @AleblancNRSD1]

Nashoba's Mike Poirier recently underwent a successful heart transplant. To show support and encourage his recovery, #Nashoba teachers took to the feild to form a heart. Best of luck Mike in your recovery.

[CRMC @CivilRightsCntr]

Activist and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King was born #OTD.

She continued her husband's work after he died. She founded the @thekingcenter.

The center is devoted to voting rights and combating hunger, unemployment and racism.

#TheMarchContinues

[CRMC @CivilRightsCntr]

#OTD in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last speech.

He was in Memphis, Tennessee, supporting a sanitation workers' strike as part of the Poor People's Campaign. He was murdered the next day.

Rest in power, Dr. King!

#TheMarchContinues

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Happy Retirement, Betty!

Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest active ranger in the National Park Service at age 100, retired today after a remarkable career. Learn more: https://t.co/sUOb3R5ZFQ

📸Betty Reid Soskin @RosieRiveterNPS

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Being “colorblind” is not the solution to racism.

Nor does it get us to true peace, which, as my father said, “is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

See people fully.
Love people deeply.

[CRMC @CivilRightsCntr]

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was born #OTD in 1922. The police brutally beat him for enrolling his kids in an all-white school in 1957.

He kept fighting for equality. Martin Luther King Jr. called him "the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South."

#TheMarchContinues

[The Leadership Conference @civilrightsorg]

An Alabama state trooper shot Jimmie Lee Jackson #OTD in 1965. He died eight days later.

He's been called “the first martyr” of the Selma voting rights struggle, and his death inspired activists to march. That march became Bloody Sunday, which led to the VRA. #BlackHistoryMonth

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Do you know about #JoAnnRobinson?

She was critical to the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Google and share her story.

#WomenSoulOfTheMovement #BlackHistoryMonth

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

I honor #IdaBWellsBarnett.

And I encourage you to pass her name and this link to @ClintSmithIII facilitating a @TheCrashCourse on Ida B. Wells-Barnett to at least 20 people: https://t.co/nuBynGtPrl

#WomenSoulOfTheMovement #BlackHistoryMonth

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

We’re on a #WomenSoulOfTheMovement #BlackHistoryMonth journey. Thank you for learning with #TheKingCenter and sharing what you learn with others.

Today’s highlighted Black woman is #FannieLouHamer.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Can you help me share about the remarkable #DorothyCotton?

#WomenSoulOfTheMovement #BlackHistoryMonth

@TheKingCenter

[CRMC @CivilRightsCntr]

Rosa Parks was already a dedicated civil rights activist by the time she refused to surrender her seat to a white rider on a segregated city bus, leading to her arrest and sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

She was born #OTD in 1913. Happy birthday, Rosa.

#TheMarchContinues

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.”

Remembering and honoring #RosaParks on her 109th birthday.

#BlackHistoryMonth #WomenSoulOfTheMovement

[NatCivilRightsMuseum @NCRMuseum]

#OnThisDay in 1960, the “Greensboro Four” staged a sit-in at a restaurant in Greensboro, NC. Despite the restaurant’s policy to only serve White people, the four Black students stayed at the restaurant until it closed. This act inspired a movement across various US cities.

#BHM