The Rollback of the Civil Rights Movement Is the Singular Moral Failure of Modern American Conservatism
Almost from the time Lyndon Johnson handed Dr. King the pen with which h’d signed the CRA in 1964, the Republican Party determined to derive political benefits from attaching itself to the angry ...
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The story of one of the most influential yet forgotten civil rights figures
While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...
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Civil Rights
attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group A North Dakota jury has begun deliberating on whether Greenpeace ...
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Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement
It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...
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How a Black Movement About Freedom Became a Movement About Welfare
The Congressional Black Caucus stood in firm support of Green's actions and, in their own move to disrupt, CBC members sang "We Shall Overcome," an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, as Johnson ...
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Women's Rights
Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...
‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...
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IUN event explores importance of food in the fight for civil rights
“Black Philanthropy and the importance of food during the Civil Rights movement is a huge topic,” Wallace said. “The Montgomery Bus Boycotts were literally funded by plates being sold in ...
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The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S.
It included just 28 words, but a single sentence transformed the civil rights of women in the United ... Alice Paul and other leaders of the suffragist movement celebrate the passing of the ...
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Hazel Dukes, civil rights advocate and NAACP leader, dies at 92
Propelled a movement': Looking forward and back as the Civil Rights Act turns 60 Dukes was one of few women to lead the NAACP, succeeding Enolia McMillan as president in 1990. She held that ...
Seabrook resident reflects on his time with MLK, the Civil Rights Movement and Selma
John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.
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Amid Changes at the National Archives, the Carter Library Cancels a Civil Rights Book Event
The events, which featured authors of books on climate change, homelessness and the civil rights movement, had been scheduled months earlier. But this week, the authors were told they would have ...