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Historic Event

The Memphis Massacre

  • Discrimination
  • Politics
  • Civil War & Reconstruction, 1860-1890
An illustration of a school house on fire. Some onlookers cheer, while others run towards help.
… the policemen and white citizens just shot everybody they found.
They drew their pistols and said they would shoot us and fire the house if we did not let them have their way with us.
I could hear the screams of the children . . .
One hundred and fifty years of silence does not break easily or cleanly.
Printed cartoon showing the assignation of Octavius Catto in Philadelphia in 1871.
Biography

Octavius Catto

  • Discrimination
People waiting in line to vote
Present to Past

Legislating Rights

  • Discrimination
Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation
Present to Past

Education for All

  • Discrimination