Black and White Students Come Together - Pictures

Freedom Rides of 1961

Black and White students arrested after protesting together

White students protesting on a bus against segregation

March on Washington 1963

The March on Washington in 1963 was not only Black individuals but White individuals as well fighting for desegregation

Freedom Summer 1964

White students alongside Black students protesting

SDS- Students for a Democratic Society

Black & White Students Come Together

Freedom Rides of 1961

This is the full length film as scene on PBS in 2011.  This film depicts what was the Freedom Rides of 1961.  The premise of the Freedom Rides was to bring black and white students on busses starting in the north and going further and further down south.  The movement was organized by CORE - Congress of Racial Equality. 

Website for the Movie:

Freedom Riders

March on Washington of 1963

The March on Washington occurred in the summer in Washington DC on August 28th, 1963.  It is best known for the speech in which Martin Luther King Jr. gave.  His speech he would give on this day would be known in the future as the "I Have a Dream" speech.   On this day people of all ages, including students, of both black and white came together.   

Freedom Summer of 1964

The Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi was one of the occurrences were you saw a coming together of black and white students for the rights of blacks.  The premise of the Freedom Summer was to help Mississippi black citizens to be able to vote with the pre Voting Rights Act of 1965 rules in place.  Through out the summer a large number of white students from the North came down to help.  There was one particular incident that brought a lot of attention to the Freedom Summer in which two white men, and one black men, was killed by the KKK.  The men were Andrew Goodman, Michael Shwerner, and James Chaney.  

Free Speech Movement of 1964-1965

The Free Speech Movement began in 1964 at Berkeley University.  This is a clip from the movie, Berkeley in the Sixities, which details the student fight at Berekely on several issues, including Civil Rights.  The Free Speech Movement began when a student got in trouble and arrested for passing out information on the Civil Rights Movement, just because he did not produce identification.  It sparked a sit in around the car in which he was arrested on October 1st and then a large sit in on December 2nd 1965 in Sproul Hall.  After the second sit in provisions were made to campus rules which would allow for political information to be passed around on the campus - including materials on the Civil Rights.  

SDS - Students of a Democratic Society 

SDS - Students of a Democratic Society was an organization made up of primarily white students.  It was formed at a time when the civil rights was in full swing and the Vietnam War was at hand.  They were the youth fighting for what they believed was to be rights.  This clip is from the movie, Rebels with a Cause.

Students Fights for Equality in Film

Remember the Titans

Remember the Titans, is a Disney Film that came out in 2000. It potrays a football team in Alexandria, Virigina in 1971 at TC Williams High School. The school is forced to desegrate, including the high school having a change of head coaches. The new coach, Coach Boone, played by Denzel Washington, is black. He replaced the famed and well like, Coach Yoast, a white male. The movie depicts the team coming together despite the issue of race, which leads to a winning season. The movie is based off of true events.

http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/rememberthetitans.php

This link is to website detailing information on the real Titans 71' football team.

The 71' Titans Footabll Team




Glory Road 

Glory Road, a Disney film, which came out in 2006, deptics the first NCAA basketabll team with an all African American starting line-up in 1966. The events show in the film are based on true events that took place at Texas Western with the 1966 team. There were some added theatrical changes. The movie shows how the team came together and what they had to overcome.

Ruby Bridges Movie

The Ruby Bridges movie came out in 1998 by Disney. It shows the story of Ruby Bridges in a theatrical way.

Tougaloo College

 

 

 

During the Civil Rights Movement, students played a vital role in helping to end segregation and racism in the south during this time. People have heard the wonderful things that the "Little Rock Nine" did down in Arkansas along with those four brave young men that sat down at the lunch counter in that North Carolina company store. However, you may not have heard about a small, private, liberal arts college in Madion County of Jackson, Mississippi. This college was founded in 1869 by the American Missionary Association to provide teacher education and industrial training for African Americans in Mississippi. Although a historically black college, from its start, Tougaloo College served all races. Tougaloo students and white students at nearby Millsaps College, a white Methodist school, formed academic and social bonds, setting, for at least the time, a rare example of racial cooperation and peace. In 1960 Tougaloo installed a president who would lead the college through the turbulent years of the civil rights movement. Dr. Adam Beittel began a successful exchange program with several northern schools, including Brown University, which brought white students to Tougaloo. Because Tougaloo College was a private institution administered by a board in New York, it was free from State control. Students at Tougaloo began protesting racial discrimination in Jackson, and led a boycott of restaurants in the city which refused to serve blacks. Many students were arrested for protesting at the businesses and for trying to attend segregated white churches and concerts. President Beittel frequently bailed the students out of jail. The students also led a successful campaign to encourage white entertainers not to participate in segregated performances in Jackson. In the 1960s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee members Bob Moses and James Lawson held voter registration and nonviolence workshops on campus.Resistance to the civil rights activities of the students brought violence to the Tougaloo campus, as faculty housing on the edge of the school often became the target of drive-by shootings. In 1964 the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (created by the legislature to defend the state from the encroachment of federal authority) successfully prevailed on Tougaloo's Board of Trustees in New York to dismiss Dr. Beittel as college president by threatening trouble between the college and the State if Beittel remained. The Board removed Dr. Beittel, but by this time the student movement on campus was waning.Tougaloo College has continually sought to enhance the education of its students, as well as to promote harmonious racial relations between whites and blacks. As the center of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, Tougaloo College played a vital role in advancing the black community in the State.

By:  Kyle Brandon