Segregation in the US: Difference between revisions
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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/road-selma-photos-civil-rights-movement by News Desk 8/3/15] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/road-selma-photos-civil-rights-movement by News Desk 8/3/15] | ||
“So much of our turbulent history – the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war, the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow, the death of four little girls in Birmingham, and the dream of a Baptist preacher – met on this bridge,” he said. “It was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills; a contest to determine the meaning of America.” | “So much of our turbulent history – the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war, the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow, the death of four little girls in Birmingham, and the dream of a Baptist preacher – met on this bridge,” he said. “It was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills; a contest to determine the meaning of America.” | ||
=====Preserving history of Mexican American school segregation===== | |||
[https://www.axios.com/2021/12/09/preserving-history-latino-school-segregation by Russell Contreras 9/12/21 AXIOS] | |||
Activists in the small town of Marfa, Texas, are working to get national recognition for a building once used as a segregated school for Mexican American students, some of who were used as extras in the 1956 movie, "Giant." | |||
