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Remembering Jasper civil rights leader Booker T. Hunter
KFDM Beaumont· 5 days agoA longtime Jasper civil rights activist has died.Booker T. Hunter was one of the original organizers...
Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech in its entirety
Mountain View Telegraph· 5 days agoCivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in...
‘A great man’: KCK bids fond farewell to civil rights activist, historian Chester Owens
The Kansas City Star· 14 hours agoAfter 78 years in Kansas City, Kansas, locally renowned civil rights activist and historian Chester C. Owens Jr. is moving away. Before he does, though, the Unified Government ...
‘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...
Civil rights leader and member of Wilmington Ten passes away
The Daily Reflector· 5 days agoWillie Earl Vereen of the Wilmington Ten died on Saturday May 25 at the age of 70.
On This Day, June 8: USS Liberty attacked off Egypt
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoOn June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an intelligence ship sailing in international waters off Egypt, was attacked by Israeli jet planes and torpedo boats.
Today in History: Frank Lloyd Wright is born
Chicago Tribune· 52 minutes agoOn June 8, 1867, modern American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Flashback: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin was a...
After their sons were killed by police in Michigan, families march for justice, reform
Detroit News· 12 hours agoThe families of people killed by police officers in Michigan joined civil rights attorneys,...
Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday' Changed the Course of History
Time via AOL· 2 days agoThey wanted the world to know that on June 9, 1964, police and Klansmen brutalized...tell—shape our...
America is again stuck in darkness. Queer people of color have always known the way out
LA Times via AOL· 2 days agoShe led by example, exuding self-worth and self-love — traits emphasized by the Rev. Martin Luther...