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1950s to early 1970s Historically, it spans much farther back in time...

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Kyklos “Circle of Brothers” 1865, Tennessee Confederate soldiers White supremacy Targeted freedmen & allies Burned houses, attacked & killed 3 waves: 1965, 1915, 1950s Medgar Evers Civil Rights leaders murdered 4 girls killed in Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama Billie Holiday ‘Strange Fruit

Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 Supreme Court rules all schools, in all states are to be “desegregated” or integrated. Topeka, Kansas Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How it Felt to Be Free

December 1 st 1956 arrested Boycott lasted until December 20 th 1956, 381 days, Supreme Court rules to end segregation on buses. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led boycotts We Shall Overcome – Louis Armstrong

Woolworth Lunch Counter 1960 Jackson, MS Sam Cooke – A Long Time Coming

Malcolm X & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Debate

Bob Dylan – The Times are A-Changin’

Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On

Fight the Power 1989 – Public Enemy Fight the Power Man in the Mirror 1988 – Michael Jackson Man in the Mirror