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American World Studies from the University of Iowa. I have previously served as the first Cassius | American World Studies from the University of Iowa. I have previously served as the first Cassius | ||
Marcellus Clay Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Yale University. | Marcellus Clay Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Yale University. | ||
=====Black Children Begin Movement Protesting Segregation; Face Police Brutality===== | |||
[https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/2 by EJI 2/5/1963] | |||
On May 2, 1963, more than 1,000 Black children peacefully protested racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children's Crusade, beginning a movement that sparked widely publicized police brutality that shocked the nation and spurred major civil rights advances. | |||
