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In April 1963, a letter smuggled out from behind prison walls changed the course of America's civil rights movement. How did words scrawled on toilet paper and newspaper margins become history?
May 5, 2026
May 3, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Police dogs and fire hoses turned on peaceful marchers. The photographs moved a president — and produced the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
May 2, 2026On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr., the iconic figure of the Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated on the balcony of a Memphis motel. His death shook America to its core and forever altered the course of history.
Apr 4, 2026
The 'Bloody Sunday' that took place on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama on March 7, 1965, became the decisive catalyst for the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Two weeks later, on March 22, Senate hearings on President Lyndon Johnson's Voting Rights Act intensified, and the course of history began to shift.
Mar 22, 2026