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