Stops Along the Road to Civil Rights

Stops Along The Road to Civil Rights

Washington, D.C.

Lincoln Memorial-

Marian Anderson-Easter Sunday, 1939

Mahalia Jackson- May 17, 1957

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

Supreme Court of the United States

1896- Plessy v. Ferguson-

1938- Gaines v. Canada

1944- Smith v. Allwright

1946- Morgan v. Virginia

1954- Brown v the Board of Education,Topeka, Kansas

The Doll test

1964- Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States

1978-Bakke v. Univ. of California, Davis-

United States Capitol

Civil Rights Act, 1964-

Voting Rights Act, 1965

Alabama

Anniston, Alabama

Freedom Riders-

Birmingham (Bombingham) Alabama

16th Street Baptist Church

Rickwood Field-

Muscle Shoals, Alabama

W.C. Handy- father of “the Blues”

Montgomery, Alabama

Rosa Parks/ bus boycott

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church

Southern Poverty Law Center

Greyhound Bus Terminal/ 210 South Court Street

Selma, Alabama

Edmund Pettus Bridge- Bloody Sunday

National Voting Rights Museum- 1012 Water Avenue

Voting Rights Act, 1965-

Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

Central High School

Daisy Bates-

Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

James Weldon Johnson- “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

Mims, Florida

Harry T. Moore

Rosewood, Florida

Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Auburn Avenue

Atlanta Fulton County Stadium

Ebenezer Baptist Church

Morehouse College

Monroe, Georgia

Moore’s Ford Lynching/ Truman desegregates US military

Savannah, Georgia

Levy’s Department Store

Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

Homer Plessy-

New Zion Baptist Church- 2319 Third Street

SCLC

William J. Frantz School/ Ruby Bridges

Bogalusa, Louisiana

Deacons for Defense vs. The Klan

Mississippi

500+ black lynchings, 25 civil rts. murders, birthplace of the blues; today has

more black officeholders than any other state in the Union

Clarksdale, Mississippi

Aaron Henry- the longest boycott in Mississippi history

Fourth Street- Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert

Nighthawk, Kansas City Red, Ike Turner, Sam Cooke.

Delta Blues Museum-

Cleveland, Mississippi

614 South Chrisman Avenue

U.S. 61- Amzie Moore’s Gas Station- offered the only restrooms for black drivers

Between Memphis and Vicksburg.

Greenwood, Mississippi

616 Avenue I

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Headquarters

Stokely Carmichael- “We want… black power.”

Home base of Citizens Council

Sam Block, recruiter for voter registration

Dick Gregory, Harry Belafonte

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

University of Southern Mississippi-

Clyde Kennard

Shady Grove Church- gravesite of Vernon Dahmer

Indianola, Mississippi

Fannie Lou Hamer- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Jackson, Mississippi

219 North Lamar Street- Greyhound Bus Station- Freedom Riders

2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive- Medgar Evers

The Ghosts of Mississippi

500 West County Road- Tougaloo College-

Money, Mississippi

“When we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color,

we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t”- William Faulkner

Bryant’s Country Store/ murder of Emmett Till

Oxford, Mississippi

University of Mississippi, 1962, James Meredith

Philadelphia, Mississippi

Freedom Summer

Murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman

North Carolina

Greensboro, North Carolina

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Ezell Blair Jr. /Woolworth’s

Charlotte, North Carolina

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

Monroe, North Carolina

Gravesite of Robert Williams

Raleigh, North Carolina

Shaw University/

SNCC

Sedalia, North Carolina

Charlotte Brown/Palmer Institute-

Wilmington, North Carolina

Alex Manley

Dr. Hubert Eaton

South Carolina

Orangeburg, South Carolina

South Carolina State University-

All Star Bowling Lanes

Rock Hill, South Carolina

McCrory’s

Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

1968 Sanitation Workers Strike

April 4- assassination of MLK Jr.

450 Mulberry St.- National Civil Rights Museum-

Ida B. Wells- Memphis Free Speech

Nashville, Tennessee

First Baptist Church-Headquarters for Sit-in Movement

Fisk University and Jubilee Hall-

Pulaski

Birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan

Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

University of Virginia/ Buddy’s Restaurant

C’ville bus terminal

Farmville, Virginia/ Prince Edward County

Robert Russa Moton High School

Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County

New Kent County

Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968)

Richmond, Virginia

Arthur Ashe Memorial