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Frederick Leonard (activist)
Frederick Leonard is an American activist who was involved in the civil rights movement. Involvement in the civil rights movement Leonard participated in the Nashville sit-ins in 1960 while attending Tennessee State University. He also participated in a Freedom Riders, Freedom Ride that started on May 17, 1961, and travelled from Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville to Birmingham. In a 1985 interview with Blackside Inc., which produced ''Eyes on the Prize'', Leonard elaborated his experience on the Freedom Ride. When the Greyhound Lines, Greyhound bus arrived at the terminal in Montgomery, he recalled "the Ku Klux Klan, Klan [came] through with their guns and their robes and everything", but the Freedom Riders felt at ease because they were being escorted by police. As soon as they reached the terminal in Birmingham, he noticed the police had suddenly vanished and the terminal looked deserted and eerie. He said that after he noticed the police were gone, "all of a sudden, just like, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States. The movement had its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, although it made its largest legislative gains in the 1960s after years of direct actions and grassroots protests. The social movement's major nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience campaigns eventually secured new protections in federal law for the civil rights of all Americans. After the American Civil War and the subsequent abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most of whom had recently been enslaved. For a short period of time, African American men voted and held political office, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
