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Daughter shares story of her father, Deputy Sheriff Fifield, during the Civil Rights era
The St. Augustine Record· 1 day agoJohns County, owner of a local gas station, and a 20-year Crescent Beach resident during early...
Another blow to American democracy from the Supreme Court
The Hill· 3 hours agoSouth Carolina NAACP put to rest any lingering doubts that its six-member conservative majority is...
1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts – KION546
KION 46 Salinas· 5 days agoFollowing that law, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed landmark civil rights bills including the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing <...
50 years ago: When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Notre Dame
Gannett via AOL· 17 hours ago"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated," he said. The Civil Rights Act was...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoTo Sewell, voting rights aren’t just policy but personal as she was raised in Selma...the main hub where our civil rights heroes had organized. Now, as Alabama and other southern states begin ...
Democrats should use billboards to spotlight 'horrible' votes on women's rights | Opinion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt would have prohibited any laws that...something the US Supreme Court ruled on in Griswold v. Connecticut of 1965. This is the same case that in 2022 ...
Juneteenth: a celebration amid deep concerns
Dallas Morning News· 9 hours 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...
Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoBlack Codes hampered freed Americans’ right to conduct business, own property or move freely, thanks to so-called “vagrancy laws.” During the Jim Crow era, racial segregation ...
Opinion: What links Trump and Putin? Revenge
Hartford Courant· 1 day agoIn a recent New York Times (2 Feb. 2024) opinion piece, columnist Carlos Lozada sharply criticized Donald Trump’s ostensible lack of political...
Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
theGrio via AOL· 2 days ago“Lawson went to India and learned about nonviolence and Satyagraha, and he really helped impart that...
