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Former civil rights activists raised in the South recount how their commitment to nonviolence was sorely tested by the extreme hostility and mob violence they encountered.
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Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr. trained future Freedom Riders in nonviolence during role-playing activities in Nashville, TN.
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The state of Mississippi's plan to bankrupt CORE backfired when, on August 14, 1961, all but nine of the Freedom Riders returned to Jackson for their arraignment.
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Janie Forsyth McKinney was twelve years old when the Freedom Riders came through her hometown of Anniston, Alabama in 1961.
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Watch hours 3 and 4 of The Great War.
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Watch hours 5 and 6 of The Great War .
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In 1859, John Brown seized a federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, but failed to incite a revolution.
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Inside Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, an abolitionist meeting was disrupted when members of an anti-abolitionist mob threw rocks through the windows.
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In April 1861, the American Civil War began, reuniting abolitionists who had grown apart in recent years.
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In 1857, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision had the potential to legalize slavery everywhere in the United States.
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In 1833, Frederick Douglass was sent to a slave breaker to be beaten back into submission.Â
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At six years old, Frederick Douglass had just begun his life as a slave when he witnessed his aunt get beaten brutally by her master.
