"Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives." (Chapter 31)
Jackson, Mississippi Woolworth counter sit-in, May 28, 1963
"It's not okay to hate anybody." (Chapter 26)
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"... from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard..." (Chapter 1)
"Two live oaks stood at the edge of the Radley lot; their roots reached out into the side-road and made it bumpy." (Chapter 4)
Halifax, North Carolina
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Birmingham, Alabama Baptist church bombing aftermath, September 15, 1963
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Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolling as the first African American students at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1963.
James Meredith, at 29, a veteran of the US Air Force, was escorted by armed military personnel to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962
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Ruby Bridges, at six, the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school in the South -- William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, November of 1960.
"... It is true --
I've always loved the daring ones..." -- Alice Walker
from "Once" Meredith was the first African American to desegregate a university in the south.
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Ruby Bridges
''The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's
people that has not previously been taken into account.'' -- Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. Reproduced in In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, "From an Interview" (1983). Interview in Interviews with Black Writers, ed. John O'Brien (1973). |
AP Photos/Bill Hudson
William Gadsen attacked by police dogs in front of 16th Street Baptist Church, during a nonviolent protest in Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963. Charles Moore, Civil Rights Photojournalist
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Charles Moore, Civil Rights Photojournalist
Fire hoses turned on participants in a non- violent Civil Rights protest -- Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. Charles Moore, Civil Rights Photojournalist
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Vivian Malone and James Hood, in the first photo on the left above, achieved this historic milestone after Governor George Wallace, who had been blocking them at a university doorway, stood aside when President Kennedy mobilized National Guard troops. Vivian Malone graduated the University of Alabama with honors, but never landed work in Alabama. She went on to work in research for the US Department of Justice and also as director for a number of federal government institutions including the Veteran's Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Voter Education Project. James Hood left the University of Alabama after two months and graduated from Michigan State University. He worked at the Madison Technical College for 26 years and later retired as chairman of public safety services in charge of police and fire training. James Meredith went on to earn a law degree from Columbia University. Ruby Bridges worked as a travel agent and currently chairs the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which she formed in 1999 to promote "the values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences."
"I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death."
"There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle." |
Farmer John Barnett's wife Venus, works in her vegetable garden after a second planting, Oklahoma, 1942. A
windstorm earlier in the year blew the first seedlings away.
Alfred Eisenstaedt Time Life Getty Images
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Please note that LOC is Library of Congress.
Dust Bowl mother with boys and girl. Alfred Eisenstaedt Time Life Getty Images
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Migrant mother looking at a map. Dorothea Lange
Harvesters hitchhike to a wheat harvesting, Oklahoma 1942. Alfred Eisenstaedt Time Life Getty Images
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