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U.S. Postal Service to honor civil rights icon John Lewis with a 2023 postage stamp
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJohn Lewis, the late Georgia Congressman who dedicated his life to fighting for civil rights and...
U.S. Postal Service honors civil rights hero John Lewis with new stamp
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe United States Postal Service this week announced seven new stamp designs for 2023, one of which...
Fighting for voting rights, making 'good trouble' in John Lewis' name, now a partisan issue
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWASHINGTON ‒ It frustrates John Suttles that Congress has yet to pass a bill named after fellow...
'Until justice rolls down like water': Wreath ceremony honors Rep. John Lewis, martyrs
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEven as rain poured down and thunder clapped on Friday afternoon in Montgomery, activists, local...
Reverend James Lawson, civil rights activist and nonviolent protest pioneer dies at 95
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 week agoNASHVILLE, Tenn. — James Lawson, the man who inspired a generation of nonviolent activists in the...
Civil rights activist visiting Columbia recalls other women who 'fought the good fight'
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAfter she helped organize the 1963 March on Washington from an office in Harlem, Joyce Ladner had...
Tennessee Voices, Episode 325: Alice Faye Duncan, children's author, educator, librarian
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPrior to the well-documented civil rights struggles of the 1960s in the South, a group of Black...
Drawn into Conflict: A new graphic history on James Meredith
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAram Goudsouzian will discuss Man on a Mission at Novel in Memphis on September 27 at 6 p.m. Sixty...
'Rest in Power': Nashville Civil Rights activist King Hollands dead at 82
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCivil rights activist King Madison Hollands, a leader in the 1960s Nashville Student Movement to racially integrate the region, died Wednesday. He was 82 years old. His cause of death and information ...
'The power of ordinary Americans': Remembering Selma foot soldier George Sallie
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 4 months agoRain fell in Selma on Saturday, Jan. 27 — the day that hundreds of people honored the legacy of...