Civil Rights
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Discrimination Still Occurring in 21st Century America
It has been almost 50 years, since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, yet discrmination is still happening. A black couple seeking to be married in a Mississippi church, First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, were asked to marry elsewhere by Rev. Stan Weatherford. He said that he was honoring a request by some congregants who didn’t want the couple married at the church. Church refuses to marry black couple in Mississippi. Timeline of the events involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Civil Rights Movement Events
April 1948 Gladys Noel Bates, a teacher in the Jackson Public School system, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Jackson Public School Board for its refusal to pay black teachers and administrators salaries equal to those paid to whites with similar experience and educational background. May 17, 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, ruled unanimously that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The court argued that segregation hurt both black and white students by instilling in each group false feelings of inferiority and superiority, respectively. The court added that the damage segregation did to blacks…
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Vigil Remembering Tulsa Race Riots-90 Years Later
Reported by: Jamie Oberg Email: joberg@fox23.com May 31st – the anniversary of a sad day in Tulsa’s history; it’s the 90th anniversary of the race riots. After sixteen hours of attacks, hundreds were injured and nearly 10,000 people were left homeless. A candlelight vigil will be held Wednesday night from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in downtown Tulsa. Fox23’s Jamie Oberg spoke with one local author who told the story of the Race Riots many had never heard. “Recognize it happened, don’t let it happen again.” As Tulsa remembers the Race Riots in the Greenwood District 90 years ago, author and native Tulsan Eddie Faye Gates remembers…
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The Tulsa Race Riot
The Tulsa Race Riot Tulsa Historical Society 2445 South Peoria Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 918.712.9484 | ths@tulsahistory.org On the morning of May 30, 1921, a young black man named Dick Rowland was riding in the elevator in the Drexel Building at Third and Main. The white elevator operator, Sarah Page, claimed that Rowland grabbed her arm, causing her to flee in panic. Accounts of the incident circulated among the city’s white community during the day and became more exaggerated with each telling. Tulsa police arrested Rowland the following day and began an investigation. An inflammatory report in the May 31 edition of the Tulsa Tribune spurred a confrontation between black and…