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A Sweeping History of the Black Working Class
The Nation· 1 hour agoThe March on Washington, after all, was about jobs as well as freedom, and one of the themes that connected the plethora of speeches given by the leaders...
Civil rights era leader dies at 95 | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 1 hour agoLawson met King in 1957, after spending three years in India soaking up knowledge about Mohandas K....
Rev. James Lawson, giant of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95
Tennessee Lookout via Yahoo News· 2 days ago(This story has been updated with additional details.) Rev. James Lawson, a leader of the Civil...
James Lawson, architect of nonviolent protest of civil rights movement, dies at 95
Washington Post· 2 days agoThe Rev. James M. Lawson, a United Methodist minister who became a principal tactician of nonviolent...
James Lawson, towering Civil Rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDuring his incarceration, he said he learned about the nonviolent protests led by Gandhi in India....
The Rev. James Lawson Was More Than a Civil Rights Hero
Esquire· 16 hours agoWere it not for the Rev. James Lawson, the American civil rights movement would have taken an...
Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday' Changed the Course of History
Time via AOL· 6 days agoCredit - Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images For 60 years, Black citizens in Tuscaloosa,...
Mike Rowe's SOMETHING TO STAND FOR Celebrates USA: 'We Have A Lot To Be Proud Of'
Movieguide· 9 hours agoMike Rowe calls his upcoming movie SOMETHING TO STAND FOR “a message from the heart.” “It's not like...
70 years since Brown v. Board of Educationoutlawed school segregation: The class issues, then and...
World Socialist Web Site· 4 hours agoBoard of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), which upended the apartheid Jim Crow system in the ...
Students, teachers call on SC education agency to add AP AfricanAmerican Studies to state list
South Carolina Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoCOLUMBIA — Nacala McDaniels was excited when her high school in Richland County started offering...
