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(1)Many school systems in the United States begin their instruction of what is called the modern civil rights movement with the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. A few will go back as far as the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case in order to establish an identity and setting for the modern civil rights movement.
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for Blacks.
Janice Wesley Kelsey was 16 years old during the spring of 1963 when she became involved in the civil rights movement. Her motivation to join the movement had nothing to do with civil rights. Kelsey had a friend whose mother was involved in the movement. This was before there...
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War in the United States. On the grounds where Brattleboro Union High School and Brattleboro Area Middle School now stand, more than 10,000 of Vermont's soldiers were mustered into service, and more than 4,600 veterans of the...
