The Road to Equality ; Capturing the Voices of Civil Rights

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This week, the Mall served as the first stop of a nationwide bus tour to recognize those who gave life to the civil-rights movement and to preserve their stories of courage and struggle. But the tour is not just about preserving the past. It's about compelling a new generation of leaders to blaze their own path to advance equality and justice.

The bus tour will span 70 days and travel through 35 cities. It's no coincidence that we have launched this effort in 2004, a year in which we are commemorating two pivotal anniversaries in the history of the civil-rights movement: the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education and passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These singular events respectively struck down government- sanctioned segregation and effectively outlawed discrimination against black Americans, Hispanics, women and others.

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The Road to Equality ; Capturing the Voices of Civil Rights

The movement sparked by the Brown decision mobilized a generation to support enactment of the 1964 Act and involved thousands of ordinary citizens. While m...

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