Civil Rights Movement
In June 1964 a civil rights demonstration orientation program for Freedom Summer was held at Western College. Two days after they left for Mississippi, three young volunteers were murdered. Public uproar helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act a few months later.
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Famous quotes containing the words civil, rights and/or movement:
“At Hayes’ General Store, west of the cemetery, hangs an old army rifle, used by a discouraged Civil War veteran to end his earthly troubles. The grocer took the rifle as payment ‘on account.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Prostration is our natural position. A wormlike movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)