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)

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

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Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965

By Mikhail Hammer

Sponsored by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the 1964 Freedom Summer was set up as a voter registration drive amidst the tension of civil rights activism which had grown in frequency across the South. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and…