From Seneca Falls to Stonewall, from Emancipation to Brown v. Board — the long argument about who counts as a full citizen, and who has had to march for it.
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At 1:20 a.m. on June 28, 1969, plainclothes officers raided the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street. The patrons fought back. Six nights of protest followed.
A. Philip Randolph called for it in 1941; Bayard Rustin organized it in 1963. Two hundred and fifty thousand people gathered on August 28. King delivered his speech that afternoon.
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that “separate but equal” had no place in public schools. Linda Brown was in third grade. Implementation took decades.
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln declared enslaved people in rebellious states “forever free.” The proclamation freed no one immediately. The army that came after did.
On July 19, 1848, three hundred delegates met in upstate New York and demanded the vote. Seventy-two years later, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.