Illustrations based on The Civil Rights Movement
The 1950s and 1960s was an era dedicated to activism for equal rights and treatment of African Americans in the United States. In this project I have worked on illustrations based on the major events that took place during the span of the movement.
March On Washington
On August 28th, 1963, more than 250,000 people from across the United States gathered in Washington DC to join in peaceful protest against racial segregation and demand equal rights legislation from Congress
Crowd at Mansfield High School
During the protest against desegregation at Mansfield High School, John Pyles held a baby alligator as a warning to any African American who appeared on the school grounds that they would be "gator bait."
First Black Students in an All-White School (Sept. 25, 1957).
Students of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., including Hazel Bryan, shout insults at Elizabeth Eckford as she calmly walks toward a line of National Guardsmen
Memphis Sanitation Strike
On February 12, 1968, 1,300 Black sanitation workers went on strike in Memphis, Tennessee. They refused to do their job of picking up trash throughout the city until their demands were met as the men were forced to work in dangerous conditions, were paid very little and were not allowed to form into groups called unions
The Poor People's Campaign/Poor People's March on Washington
This was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States
School Segregation
Demonstrators picket in front of a school board office protesting segregation of students
April 15, 1947
Jackie Robinson became first African-American major league baseball player in 1947
Voting Rights Act
Activists on Aug. 28, 1963, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Police Brutality in America
African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "We demand the right to vote, everywhere" and signs protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama.
Oh Freedom by The Golden Gospel Singers
The song inspired African-Americans to stand up together and break their chains as racial discrimination was still a very common issue in the 1960s. The song addresses slavery and says that it is better to die than live like a prisoner.
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