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‘Voice for equality and justice’ in Birmingham civil rights movement dead at 82
Birmingham News· 2 days agoCivil rights activist Myrna Carter Jackson, who was twice arrested during marches in 1963 in the...
New exhibition in memory of the Civil Rights Movement comes to St. Augustine Beach
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 3 days agoThe unveiling began around 5:30 p.m. outside of the Cultural Arts Center. The St. Augustine Beach...
The Fearless Fund And the Threat to Civil Rights: The Dangers of Weaponizing History
BET.com· 2 days agoThis decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by Edward Blum's American Alliance for Equal...
Road to Rickwood
WABE· 2 hours agoIt hosted everything from segregated baseball, a women’s suffrage event, a Klan rally and eventually, the first integrated sports team in Alabama. “The Road to Rickwood” host, Roy Wood Jr. speaks ...
The Kimmel Center’s new Marian Anderson Hall is unveiled in historic ceremony
WHYY· 44 minutes agoBorn in 1897, Anderson, an internally-renowned contralto, broke barriers throughout her life and...
Blakeview: Civil rights leader and ground-breaking judge Revius Ortique Jr. was born 100 years ago...
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 11 hours agoThis week we remember Revius Ortique Jr., the lawyer, civil rights leader and judge known for many...
Civil Rights Act marks 60th anniversary as law of land
Twin States News· 1 day agoThis year marks six decades since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 years was signed into law. President...
Civil rights attorneys, community activists call for police reform in Michigan
CBS News· 1 day agoFamily and community members and civil rights attorneys came together in Lansing on Friday to call...
Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday' Changed the Course of History
Time Magazine· 2 days agoFor 60 years, Black citizens in Tuscaloosa, Ala., begged city and state leaders to tell the truth...
Sputnik Monroe, a wrestler in Tennessee during the Jim Crow era, advanced civil rights
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSputnik doesn’t qualify for hero status. There were many heroes of the Civil Rights movement in Memphis − Martin Luther King Jr., of course but also James Lawson, and countless ...
