THROUGH THE 15TH IN CELEBRATION OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST BIRTHDAY. THE TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS HOSTED FREE ADMISSIONS. HEZEKIAH WATKINS IS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, BEING CELEBRATED TODAY. WATKINS ...
After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South (Marian Holmes, ...