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School Boycott! Freedom Day February 3, 1964

July 24, 2021

By Dannie Gore On Monday, February 3, 1964, about 45 percent of all New York City students stayed out of school in the boycott to protest against school segregation. An estimated 464,361 students and teachers participated overall making the event the largest U.S. civil rights demonstration of the 1960s, nearly twice as big as […]

JFK – You Knew Black Lives Matter

May 11, 2021

By Estee, Age 12, NY

The Civil Rights Hero Who Defied Racial Segregation

October 14, 2020

By Dannie D. Gore, Sr. |||| Vivian Juanita Malone was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University ofAlabama in 1963 and the University’s first African American graduate. She was made famous by defyingAlabama Governor George Wallace’s infamous “stand in the schoolhouse door” to block her and JamesHood from enrolling […]