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In 1963, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Negro American Labor Counsel leader A. Philip Randolph, who in 1941 had planned a march in Washington to protest the exclusion of blacks from national defense jobs, organized a march along with leaders of the most prominent civil rights organizations: Jim Farmer (CORE), Martin Luther King (SCLC), John Lewis (SNCC), Roy Wilkens (NAACP), and Whitney Young (Urban League).

In 1963, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Negro American Labor Counsel leader A. Philip Randolph, who in 1941 had planned a march in Washington to protest the exclusion of blacks from national defense jobs, organized a march along with leaders of the most prominent civil rights organizations: Jim Farmer (CORE), Martin Luther King (SCLC), John Lewis (SNCC), Roy Wilkens (NAACP), and Whitney Young (Urban League).

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Domain Resource Site Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Domain Resource Site Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

During the 1950s and '60s, African-Americans campaigned for an end to racial discrimination through a series of non-violent protests and marches. The Civil Rights Movement culminated with the passage of federal laws banning discrimination in voting, employment, housing and other sectors of American society.

During the 1950s and '60s, African-Americans campaigned for an end to racial discrimination through a series of non-violent protests and marches. The Civil Rights Movement culminated with the passage of federal laws banning discrimination in voting, employment, housing and other sectors of American society.

The Road to Civil Rights The Voting Rights Act of 1965 The march from Selma to Montgomery on U.S. 80, the deaths of Jackson, Reeb, and Liuzzo, and the President's commitment kept the Voting Rights Act moving forward. In the Senate, Southern opponents staged a 24-day filibuster. Reporter E. W.

Union General Ulysses Grant determined that the only way to beat the South was to systematically destroy its land and economic resources; Atlanta was the first city sacked. Major General William T. Sherman's campaign, called "Sherman's March," was instrumental in the Union victory. The University of Georgia has a firsthand account of Atlanta's demolition.

FindingEducation spoke to Mayer about locating primary documents, understanding "historical thinking" and examining the civil rights movement. Images of the African-American children that were marched to jail, decades earlier, still resonate for Mayer. "They experienced the degradation of segregation as much as their parents.

On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Small-time convict James Earl Ray was sent to prison for the crime, but the King family believes the assassination was part of a larger government conspiracy.

Recommended Articles Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in March 1865 to assist former slaves in post-Civil War America. After the Civil War, former Confederate states passed laws known as "black codes" that restricted the rights of former slaves.