Oregon once had a set of laws in place that legally prohibited African Americans from entering the state. Although these laws were not actively enforced, they were incredibly effective in preventing Black people from settling in Oregon. Audio...
As Black GIs were stationed in South Korea during the Korean War, they were able to introduce the Korean people to American Fried Chicken. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee...
Medgar Evers was Civil rights activist and the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. When he was assassinated outside of his Mississippi home in 1963. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...
Freedom Riders were a group of activists who rode interstate buses to challenge the enforcement of two Supreme Court decisions, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal method for student involvement in the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the sit-ins movement at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina....
On February, 1, 1960, Four Black college students that sat at a "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and sparked a movement that would spread to towns throughout the South and forced Woolworth’s and other establishments...
Ruby Bridges was a 6 year old African-American child, who desegregated the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957 in an attempt to challenge the segregation after Brown vs Board of Education Audio Onemichistory.com...
Following the 1954 Brown ruling,, Southerners responded angrily soon a Massive Resistance campaign began an attempt to block integration at every level of government. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was a Civil rights org, established by the Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in 1957 to assist and coordinate with local organizations in their fight for full equality of African Americans in America. Audio...
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama in protest of bus segregation laws. The boycott is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against...
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, December 1955, triggered a wave …
Claudette Colvin is an pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, …
Emmett Louis Till, was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were …
Juneteenth is annual holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, its a mix of June and Nineteenth, Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States,...
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the...
During the early 20th century, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its African American community known as the Greenwood District. It was home to a thriving business district and surrounding residential area that earned it the nickname “Black Wall...
The 761st Tank Battalion known as the “Black Panthers” were one of the three United States Army segregated combat tank battalion to serve during World War II. The unit spend over 183 consecutive days in combat. Audio Onemichistory.com Please...
This video is about the Tuskegee Airmen during World War 2 The Tuskegee Airmen were a group African Americans who enlisted to become America's first black military airmen, during a time when there were many people who thought that black …
21 years after the end of the first great war with a new great war looming. A new generation of African Americans had to decide if fighting for democracy abroad would offer them another chance for equality at home. This …
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)[a] is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. This is the story of how that...
On November 10, 1898 a mob angry over what they called “Negro Rule” overthrew the elected government in Wilmington, North Carolina. This is the story of the only successful coup d’état ever to take place on American soil. Audio Onemichistory.com...
Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She went on to become an integral in the early civil rights movement. Audio Onemichistory.com...
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” Plessy is widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history. Audio...