Civil Rights

Fighting to outlaw racial discrimination against African Americans

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shoutout to @Sureynix @jakesiegel4 @aleezehh @HarrySukonik @JolieSukonik and @alex_myers_3 to favoriting every tweet & spreading the legacy!

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Learned that voting is important to Blacks! can vote for people that agree with beliefs & have say in legislation #giveachance #equalrights

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#onmyway to freedom thanks to @mlk and his nonviolent views. Both a #religiousleader in his community and in my heart. SCLC look at thee! 👏✅

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#neverforget September 15th #bombingham @amcollins 🙏🙏❤️❤️

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My friend's sister was killed in a tragic bombing @16thbaptist this morning @amcollins, started off like any other Sunday school morning 🙏🙏

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Near #16thbaptist in #kellyingram front of me guard dogs & spraying water? Hopefully got on Nat vid #childrenscrusade #phase2 #natattention

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Stories of burning crosses in yards, lost jobs, tires slashed, & lynching! Howfarwilltheygotostopus? #whitecitcouncil

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Martin Luther King has a dream that makes us want to beam. #1 in our hearts, now #1 for the movement #themarchonwashington

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Phase 1:✅ ..well in progress, not to many adults cooperating. boycotts done, sit-ins done, and we filled the jails #projectc #ontophasetwo

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Heard that the man with the drive, took a final dive, @malcolmx assassinated by 3 from the Nation of Islam 🔫 #bringinking #luthersboosters?

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@SNCC gives youngs blacks voice join today! #freedomrides to merge buses @Barry @moses @jfor 🙏for 3 were in KKK hands

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#selmatomontgomery planned for today, @edmundpettus authorities beat us back & sprayed @teargas in our 👀 & forced us to church #bloodysunday

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Here in FL we got separate schools for blacks & whites, in MS you can't even share textbooks! #playgroundstoo all because of @jimcrow ⬅️||➡️

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Did you hear? @rosaparks refused to give her seat to a white and was arrested! They can't do that, it's 1955! BOYCOTT THE BUSSES!! #mlk #mia

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3 missing @jchaney @goodmanandy @schwer FBI found bodies in clay south of Philly. Appeared in news #equality? MS🔥

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@jmeredith nice idea trying to enroll @olemiss can't believe they kept open anyways! anything to do with #undefeatedseason ? #forequalrights

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Say goodbye to @plessy and @ferguson because Brown vs. Board officially just desegregated schools #integration #slowbutsteady ✏️📕

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Wished I lived in LA where I could have the same rights as the whites, and @jimcrow wasn't around #lynchingherecircusthere #freemennorth

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Man that literacy test was impossible to pass, it was as if that test man was trying to make me fail on purpose and not vote #burrysurvivors

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@bennettwilson01 thanks for your support in the civil rights movement, and being the first follower obviously