QUARTER ONE (JANUARY - MARCH) 2021 | VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 1
1962 continued the growing fight to become 1st class citizens
with equal voting rights, integrated schools, fair employment and housing, and to live under a brutality-free and unbiased policing and judicial system. JET magazine's weekly print documented these injustices and the fight for equal rights; our dedication is within.
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01 CIVIL RIGHTS
1962 saw
the burgeoning of the Civil Rights marches, sit-ins and freedom rides --- the Nation's eyes on Albany, Georgia as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Civil Rights fighters sat in jail as protests ensued in the city and around the country.
02 VOTING
California passes
the 15th Amendment 93-years after approval by the U.S. Congress. Black church's burn serving as voter registration centers. Politicians use redistricting to suppress black votes. Black citizens are told to vote at their own risk by U.S. Justice Department.
03 EDUCATION
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James
Meredith fights to attend the University of Mississippi.
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Public, private, and religious school systems continue to fight integration 8-years after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
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