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Richmond Planet Lynching Article
Robert Leon Bacon Letter![Background Map: 1961 Freedom Rides. [New York]: Associated Press Newsfeature, [1962]. Printed map and text. Geography and Map Division. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., LOC](/docs/?w=118&h=96&img=freedomridersmap1.jpg)
Freedom Rides Map
Civil Rights Protests in Danville![[110th] H.Res.431 : Recognizing the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia legalizing interracial marriage within the United States. Sponsor: Representative Tammy Baldwin (introduced 5/23/2007)., LOC](/docs/?w=118&h=96&img=loving-0.jpg)
Loving v. Commonwealth
Virginia Civil Rights Memorial
Richmond Streetcar Boycott
Protest:
Rise up and Demand Our Rights
Lawsuits intended to reduce inequalities between white and black schools or to overturn the separate but equal doctrine and require desegregation of public schools occupied the center of attention during the 1950s and into the 1960s, but both before and after that campaign African Americans protested and actively sought to change other public policies and behaviors associated with racial segregation and discrimination.
Parents, students, and teachers protested the poor quality of public schools before the Brown v. Board of Education decision, but after the Supreme Court reversed the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson, African Americans mounted an increasingly vigorous and widespread campaign against racial segregation and discrimination generally.
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