Portal:Civil rights movement/Did you know


 * ... that Sammy Younge Jr. was the first black college student to be murdered for participating in the civil rights movement?
 * ... that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of Mississippi?
 * ... that civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was brutally beaten at the orders of police in Mississippi, US for standing up against racial segregation?
 * ... that after J. Charles Jones led an anti-segregation sit-in with hundreds of activists at a counter in a Woolworth in Charlotte, NC, the store closed its counter to prevent further integration?
 * ... that in 1955, a white supremacist organization claimed the racial integration of schools in the United States was a plot devised in Moscow to "mongrelize" White Americans?