Standing On The Shoulders Of Unsung Heroes: The Beginning Of The Civil Rights Movement

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The four freshmen and their fellow students stood tall in their movement, however, they stood on the shoulders of unsung heroes.

The movement did not begin with Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Nor did it began with the four freshmen. It got it’s start with Homer Plessy.

Today’s clip narrated by Avis Buchanan, the Director of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, introduces us to Homer Plessy and the separate but equal doctrine

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