|
When I was a child
growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, the civil rights movement was
at its zenith in the American culture, breaking the back of Jim Crow
across the South.
I remember
watching the network news showing the cowardly city officials of
Birmingham using firehoses on children marching against Jim
Crow.
I remember more
cowards blocking the Selma to Montgomery march where the Alabama
State Troopers lost their discipline and clubbed civilians who
were exercising their constitutional rights.
I remember when
three civil rights workers were murdered by other cowards for
nothing more than signing people up to vote.
Because I
remember, I cannot forget.
These pages of
civil rights historical sites range from Oxford, Ohio where the
civil rights student workers were trained at Miami University to
Philadelphia, Mississippi where the civil rights workers were
murdered are dedicated to the men and women of the civil rights
movement, past, present and future.
I invite you to
visit each page and take something away to expand your
mind.
These pages load a little slow because of all the pictures in
them!
Reverend George Lee
Gravesite, resting place
of the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement, 1955, Belzoni,
Mississippi
Medgar Evers Statue, marking
the accomplishments of the murdered chapter president of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
Jackson Public Library, Jackson, Mississippi
Freedom
Rider's Bus Station, ultimate destination of the Freedom Riders in
1961, Jackson, Mississippi
Emmett Till Murder Site,
where the perceived crime of "whistling at a white woman" led
to a fourteen year-old African-American boy's murder, Money, Mississippi
The Lorraine Motel, now a civil
rights museum, Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968
Retracing Freedom Summer of
1964 and the murder of three civil rights workers,
Philadelphia and Neshoba County, Mississippi, made famous by the
book, "Three Lives for Mississippi", and the film, "Mississippi
Burning" was an interesting, but emotional trip for me in
1999.
| 
