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“The Largest Civil Rights Protest You’ve Never Heard Of”
Teaching the 1964 New York school boycott
by Adam Sanchez
“Selma!”
“Birmingham!”
“Washington, D.C.!”
Struggling to remember their Southern geography, my students slowly rattled off cities that came to mind. I had asked them “Where did the largest civil rights protest of the 1960s take place?” Their answers, building off of the traditional civil rights narrative they had learned in elementary and middle school, mostly consisted of Southern cities. They were wrong. The real answer is New York City, where most of my students were born and raised. Click here to continue reading about the 1964 New York School Boycott
Dr. Terrence Roberts will be the speaker for the 2020 Pasadena Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast hosted by Jericho Road Pasadena. Dr. Roberts is a management consultant and mental health professional, and was a member of The Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African-American teens who were the first to integrate into Arkansas schools following three years after the United States Supreme Court rule that segregated schools were illegal. Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are available here.