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“A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.” Martin Luther King, Jr. on courage, equality, and justice (Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo by U.S. Embassy New Delhi. CC by ND 2.0 via Flickr.) #MLK #language #rhetoric Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Famous Letters, Pete Seeger, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Civil Rights Leaders, Racial Equality, Martin Luther King Day, Miles Davis

Each January, Americans commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., reflecting on the enduring legacy of the legendary civil rights activist. From his iconic speech at the Civil Rights March of 1963, to his final oration in Memphis, Tennessee, King is remembered not only as a masterful rhetorician, but a luminary for his generation and many generations to come. These quotes, compiled from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, demonstrate the reverberating impact of this work…

Encyclopaedia Britannica article. Jim Crow segregation [Credit: Esther Bubley/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (file no. LC-USW3-037939-E)] Civil Rights Movement, White People Problems, Jim Crow Laws, Rome Georgia, Gil Scott Heron, Greyhound Bus, Jim Crow, Rosa Parks, Bus Travel

Jim Crow law, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century. The segregation principle was codified on local and state levels and most famously with the Supreme Court’s ‘separate but equal’ decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

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