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Juneteenth 2024: Here's celebrations happening in Nashville and what is open and closed
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoJuneteenth, the day which recognizes the end of slavery in the United States, is celebrated on Wednesday, June 19. Nashville, a major city during the Civil
What Is Juneteenth? Everything You Need to Know about This Important Piece of American History
Blavity via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoAs of 2021, Juneteenth is officially celebrated nationally on June the 19th. However, this day of...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoLawson and students across the nation used nonviolent noncooperation to end legalized racial...
The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95
WUSF 89.7· 5 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson was a staunch advocate for nonviolent resistance to racism, even in the face...
Civil Rights Activist Rev. James Lawson Jr. Dead at 95
Black America Web· 3 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died. A Civil Rights activist, Rev. Lawson spent his life practicing...
James Lawson, towering civil rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"It wasn't just about the absence of violence, it was an active and radical strategy and philosophy...
Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
US civil rights hero James Lawson dies at 95
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSeveral of his students went on to play prominent roles in the civil rights movement, such as future congressman John Lewis and future Washington DC...
Opinion | Our Fathers Marched With M.L.K. Here’s What They Would Say to Activists Today.
New York Times· 6 days agoMs. Abernathy is an actress and author of “Partners To History: Martin Luther King, Ralph David...
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAnthony. While acknowledging Stanton’s and Anthony’s role in the antebellum abolitionist movement, Sinha underscores their fickle commitment to it. After...
