Gonzaga Protest, March 1965

ID: 5860 ~ Source: Mack, Dwayne A. “Crusade for Equality: Spokane’s Civil Rights Movement during the Early 1960s.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly 95, no. 1 (2003): 16–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40491706. (Spokesman-Review Archive)

This file appears in: Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965: Solidarity between North and South

Sam Minnix (Right) with his sister Verda (center) protesting before the Spokane Courthouse, March, 1965.

This file appears in: Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965: Solidarity between North and South

Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965: Solidarity between North and South

By Mikhail Hammer

On June 21st, 1964, one black and two white student activists were killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Only three weeks later, three lawyers from Spokane, Washington, two white and one black departed…