The Civil Rights Movement Moves the First Amendment

Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/01/2009
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm

Student members of the Carolina Association of Black Journalists organized a demonstration of the ways African Americans pushed back when they were denied First Amendment freedoms during the Civil Rights Movement in America. Students taped their mouths shut and held signs referencing historic Supreme Court cases from that period. Information sheets about these cases were provided.