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Exhibit - Children, Youth and Civil Rights
Start Date: 1/15/2015 All Day
End Date: 2/13/2015

Event Description
Children, Youth and Civil Rights is a traveling student-researched exhibit detailing the role of children and youth in the Civil Rights Movement between 1951 - 1968.

The exhibit uses photographs, newspaper articles, school reports, political cartoons, enrollment statistics and other materials that highlight the work of young people and their contributions to the civil rights movement.

This exhibit was created by students at the University of California, Riverside.

In conjunction with this event, the University will host Civil Rights: from Mississippi Freedom to Ferguson on Thursday, January 15th from 6 - 8 p.m..

 
Visiting the Exhibit
  • The exhibit is open to the Drexel community during the normal hours of W. W. Hagerty Library. You must provide a valid Dragon Card to enter the building.
  • The exhibit is open to the public between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday (except holidays). You must provide a valid ID to the security desk to gain admittance to the library.
Exhibit Highlights:
 
  • The school boycotts launched by African American students in Prince Edward County, VA, in 1951 which eventually led to a lawsuit included in the momentous Brown v. Board of Education decision in May 1954.
  • The Little Rock Nine who nationally and internationally known when hundreds of U.S. paratroopers were brought in to enforce a court order allowing black teenagers to enroll at an all-white Central High School in September 1957.
  • The Children’s Crusade in Birmingham in May 1963, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. allowed children and young people to march and launch their own demonstrations against Jim Crow practices in the city and thousands spent time in jail.
  • The 13-year struggle to gain admission of orphan black boys to Philadelphia’s Girard College, a state-supported private school located in the heart of the African American community, but surrounded by walls ten feet high.
  • The Quality Integrated Education Movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s which included massive school boycotts involving thousands of school students seeking an end to segregation and more equality among schools.
  • Freedom Summer which began with the disappearance of CORE workers James Chaney and Michael Schwerner and student volunteer Andrew Goodman in 1964. In total, over a thousand students enrolled in the 40 Freedom Schools opened through the efforts of young student volunteers who began working in Freedom Schools and drove voter registration efforts.
Contact Information:
Name: Jenny James Lee
Phone: 215.571.4095
Email: jaj92@drexel.edu
Freedom Summer Exhibit Image
Location:
W. W. Hagerty Library
First Floor Atrium
Audience:
  • Everyone

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