This month, in honor of Black History Month, and to acknowledge President’s Day, Girl Museum resident scholar Elizabeth Dillenburg discusses children’s role in the Civil Rights Movement and girls’ letters to President John F. Kennedy.

These letters show how girls speaking for freedom, justice, and equality in the recent past in the United States of America.

May their voices continue.

Content note: use of historic racial language.

Links to check out:

Children’s Defense Fund

JFK Archives