She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.
From wikipedia,
1) the buses in Montgomery
2) the hoses in Birmingham
High school students are hit by a high-pressure water jet from a
firehose during a protest in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Images like this one, printed in
Life Magazine, inspired international support for the demonstrators.
[1] Image credit:
Charles Moore,
Black Star
3) the bridge from Selma
wikipedia:
vids:
John Lewis (right, in trench coat) and Hosea Williams (left) lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, March 7, 1965.
4) the song "We Shall Over Come"
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