Civil Rights marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the Selma to Montgomery March, 1965, Flip Schulke Archives.
The decision to walkout was influenced by the Great Migration, black activism in the late 1960s, and discrimination in schools in Philadelphia.
"An African-American family leaves Florida for the North during the Great Depression"- The Smithsonian Museum.
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Activists protest for desegregated schools, mid-1950s, Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle.
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"School Textbooks Are Given Token Black Recognition", February 12, 1974, The Philadelphia Tribune.
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"When we saw injustice, we had to act on it"- Karen Apser-Jordan, an attendee of the walkout discussing why she chose to attend.