History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, ...
Among the demonstrators were “seven or eight out-of-state ministers,” United Press International reported, adding that they wore the “blue denim ‘uniform’ of the civil rights movement ...
Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...
On Friday, April 4, the National Civil Rights Museum honored the life of Martin Luther King Jr. on the 57th anniversary of his tragic death.
Grandville — History came to life for Grandville High School students last week as a civil rights activist visited students.
Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was beaten in Alabama while working to integrate the interstate bus system as a ...
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by ...
New Haven: Yale University Press. Bullard, Sara. (1993). Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The ...
Alabama continues to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, with a series of events in the state’s capital city intended to cause reflection, celebration and ...
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