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The antisemitic cartoon roiling Harvard? It's not the first time it caused a firestorm
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoKojo Acheampong, a Harvard student and member of the African and African American Resistance...
Dorie Ann Ladner, civil rights activist, dies at 81
Politico via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent...
The Ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement Went Far Beyond Affirmative Action
Time via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMartin Luther King, Jr. (fourth from left), A. Philip Randolph (second from right), and other civil...
March on Washington turns 60 with miles to go
The Hill via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOn Aug. 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people walked in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — the same march that saw the Rev....
Hollis Watkins, jailed repeatedly fighting segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82
theGrio via AOL· 9 months agoIn 1961, Watkins became one of the first Mississippi residents to work for the Student Nonviolent...
The Black Power Movement Is a Love Story
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAngela Davis arriving at the court for her trial in San Jose, Calif. in April 1972. Davis was acquitted on charges of murder, kidnapping ,and conspiracy...
Civil rights activist visiting Columbia recalls other women who 'fought the good fight'
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAfter she helped organize the 1963 March on Washington from an office in Harlem, Joyce Ladner had...
Gainesville native launches book about Black women in the civil rights movement
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA church in the Springhill community of southeast Gainesville is where the Rev. Dr. AnneMarie Mingo...
Under the baobab: 60th anniversary of March on Washington marks continuation of efforts
State College Centre Daily Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAlong with 250,000 other people I heard the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. say these words at the 1963...
Danny Lyon's civil rights era photos on view at Reading Public Museum [Spotlight]
Reading Eagle, Pa. via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFeb. 18—To mark the 60th anniversary of the passing of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Reading Public Museum is hosting "Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement ...
