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Freedom's Story Essays 1609-1865 The Varieties of Slave Labor How Slavery Affected African American Families Slave Resistance The Demise of Slavery Rooted in Africa, Raised in America Beyond the Written Document: Looking for Africa in African American Culture How to Read a Slave Narrative Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs 1865-1917 Reconstruction and the Formerly Enslaved "Somewhere" in the Nadir of African American History, 1890-1920 Racial Uplift Ideology in the Era of "The Negro Problem" Pigmentocracy Segregation The Trickster in African American Literature 1917 and Beyond African American Protest Poetry The New Negro and the Black Image: From Booker T. Washington to Alain Locke The Image of Africa in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance Jazz and the African American Literature Tradition The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s The Civil Rights Movement: 1968-2008 Freedom’s Story is made possible by a grant from the Wachovia Foundation. Freedom’s Story Advisors and Staff

		The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s Illustration Credits Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city's bus system. Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event. United Press Association photo. December 21, 1965. New York World-Telegram & the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Digital ID: cph 3c11235 Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-111235 Repository: Library of Congress Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at an F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C. February 2, 1960. Copyprint. New York World-Telegram & Sun Photograph Collection. ©Bettmann/CORBIS. Digital ID: ppmsca 08095 Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-08095 Repository: Library of Congress Sit-in at Lunch Counter, Civil rights sit-in by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody at Woolworth's lunch counter. A crowd of people pours sugar, ketchup and mustard on them in protest. May 28, 1963. Photo origin: AP, Jackson Daily News, photographer Fred Blackwell. Image ID: 2381 Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society Nellie Hunt and her daughter, Nickie sit on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. Photographed by Cass Gilbert, ca. May 1954. ©Bettmann/CORBIS. Students of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., including Hazel Bryan, second left, shouts insults at Elizabeth Eckford, second right, walking past a line of National Guardsman, not shown, who blocked the main entrance of the school. Photo by Will Counts, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, September 4, 1957. Image ID: G1775-03 Repository: Arkansas History Commission "Freedom Riders," sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality, gather outside burning bus in Anniston, Ala. Photographed by Joe Postiglione, May 14, 1961. ©Bettmann/CORBIS. Digital ID: cph 3c18472 Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-118472 Repository: Library of Congress Charles Hamilton Houston. Permission: Charles Hamilton Houston Jr. Henry A. Wallace. Repository: Agricultural Research Service » Return to essay

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