Seven Days of 1961

1,500 Black college students challenged police in 1961. The Supreme Court took their side.

Joyce Barrett led a sit-in at age 22, helping to enact a ban on racial discrimination in Maryland

More than 100 high school students walk out in protest of Brenda Travis' expulsion for activism

After Freedom Riders barely escaped death, new activists poured into the South for months

How nine college students challenged segregation at a public library

At age 15, Kenneth Dious was ready to fight for the Black students integrating UGA

They wanted to integrate their South Carolina town in 1961. The college students were sentenced to a chain gang.

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