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1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts – KION546
KION 46 Salinas· 7 days agoJohnson signed landmark civil rights bills including the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Limited ...
Daughter shares story of her father, Deputy Sheriff Fifield, during the Civil Rights era
The St. Augustine Record· 3 days agoJohns County, owner of a local gas station, and a 20-year Crescent Beach resident during early...
A new documentary tells the story of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer in her own words
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 7 days agoFannie Lou Hamer started as a sharecropper but would go on to become one of the most passionate...
Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner live on
New York Daily News· 1 hour agoIt was a warm summer day in Neshoba County, Miss. in June 1964. James E. Chaney, Andy Goodman and Mickey Schwerner were recruited along with hundreds of...
World Premiere Of Civil Rights Opera IS THIS AMERICA? Presented In Boston This September
Broadway World· 3 days agoCelebrated for creating diverse, timely and relevant opera, activist performing arts company White...
Liberalism Has the Ideas–but Does It Have the Will to Impose Them?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 day agoMy own issue was the magazine’s relationship with the Republican President Ronald Reagan, an...
Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
theGrio via AOL· 4 days agoThis became an effective strategy that galvanized America’s consciousness and eventually led to...
50 years ago: When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Notre Dame
Gannett via AOL· 3 days ago"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated," he said. The Civil Rights Act was...
The Most Liberal State in the US
Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance· 5 days agoWe recently compiled a list of the 20 Most Liberal States in the US and in this article, we will talk about 20 Most Liberal states in the US. Overview of
Juneteenth: a celebration amid deep concerns
Dallas Morning News· 2 days agoWhen Union Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston on June 19, 1865, to announce that the Emancipation Proclamation would be enforced in Texas, as in the...
