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Spacer North Carolina's Long Civil Rights Movement

When: Sat., Jan. 17, 2-3 p.m. 2015

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ALEXANDRIA BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM, 902 WYTHE STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22314 - On August 21, 1939, five African-American men recruited and trained by African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker conduct a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia, library and are arrested after being refused library cards.

Alexandria Black History Museum, 902 Wythe Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314
On August 21, 1939, five African-American men recruited and trained by African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker conduct a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia, library and are arrested after being refused library cards.

Though the Civil Rights Movement is often framed by events of the 1950s and 1960s, the struggle for political and social rights for African Americans actually stretches back nearly 150 years. North Carolinians were involved in the movement at the local, state, and national level from the end of the Civil War into the 1970s. Join historian Dr. Kenneth Zogry for a free lecture discussing the Civil Rights Movement.

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