State Chapter Presidents

Students from 47 states have signed up as Civil Rights History America State Chapter Presidents. As State Chapter Presidents, the students identified and research an Civil Rights event or landmark in their state. Their research, along with an audio overview of the history, is now available on Civil Rights Tour AI app for people across the country to learn about the vast history of civil rights across the country.

Civil Rights History America and the mobile app represent the largest student-run bank of history The program was created by Logan Dorton, a high school junior from Bethesda, Maryland, who serves as National Student Director. Logan launched the Civil Rights History America high school program to connect students nationwide through storytelling, civic engagement, and history. Under his leadership, students form state chapters at their schools, research local civil rights sites, and create original audio stories to share on the Civil Rights History America app — helping preserve the voices and places that shaped the fight for justice in their own communities.

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The Forty Acres

This site was absolutely foundational for farmers civil rights in California. It was the birthplace of the United Farm Workers (UFW) which is the longest-running, most influential farm labor union in the U.S., founded in 1966 by Larry Itliong, César Chávez, and Dolores Huerta. It has a list of necessary ideals that they advocate for including “better wages, safer working conditions, and immigration reforms for agricultural workers through strikes, boycotts, and political lobbying” (National Farm Worker Ministry, 2018...

Elbert P Tuttle Courthouse

The Elbert P Tuttle Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia played an important part in the CivilRights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. When the building was completed in 1910, it wasused as both a courthouse and a post office, but later it became the United States Court ofAppeals for the 5th Circuit. During the Civil Rights Movement, this court ensured thatdesegregation and voting rights laws were upheld in Georgia....

Women's Suffrage Monuments and Mural

Wyoming became the first U.S. territory to grant women the right to vote in 1869, and the first state to give women the right to vote when it became the 44th state in the Union in 1890. Wyoming was also the first territory and later state to allow women to hold public office....

The 16th Street Baptist Church

The 16th Street Baptist Church located in Birmingham Alabama is a key historic landmark which served as a central meeting place for civil rights activists and was the first ever black baptist church. During the 1950s and 1960s, the church led and organized protests, marches, and campaigns to end segregation....

Rensalier and Huntoon Underground Railroad Memorial

The Rensalier and Huntoon Underground Railroad Memorial honors one of the more overlooked yet important factors of the early Civil Rights Movement. Beginning in the wake of American independence from the British Empire, the Underground Railroad was one of the earliest but largest acts of resistance to slavery and civil inequality, ...