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The American paradox of protest: Celebrated and condemned, welcomed and muzzled
San Francisco Chronicle· 42 minutes agoThey’re hallmarks of American history: protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches, disruptions....
Why You Need to Spend Juneteenth in the Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement
Thrillist Food & Drink· 4 days agoAs the site of some of the most significant moments of the Civil Rights Movement, you’d be remiss...
Medgar Evers receives Presidential Medal of Freedom, country’s highest civilian honor
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAt her husband’s funeral in 1963, Myrlie Evers heard NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins declare,...
Cinco de Mayo 2024: The civil rights movement that made Cinco de Mayo popular in the US
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 3 days agoCinco de Mayo isn’t a really popular holiday in Mexico, believe it or not. But since the 1960s, it’s become widely celebrated in the United States due to a civil rights movement called the Chicano ...
Gaza, Student Protest, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Capital B via Yahoo News· 4 days agoLooking at the images might make you feel as if you’ve stepped back in time. Late on Tuesday, New...
Opinion | The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did
New York Times· 1 day agoLast week I wrote about the protests that had come to dominate my professional home, Columbia University, and make headlines across the country. After students occupied the university’s storied ...
‘Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.’ Trailer Shows How Label Thrived at Beginning of Civil Rights Movement
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA new docuseries, Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., will look at the radical history of the groundbreaking...
Historic house linked to Martin Luther King Jr. on the move in St. Johns County
WJXT Jacksonville· 2 days agoA house in St. Augustine that was firebombed and shot at during a key time in the civil rights...
Star Parker: No, demonstrations today not like the 1960s
The Bismarck Tribune· 24 hours agoThe current demonstrations on college campuses against Israel remind some of the unrest on college campuses during the 1960s. The unrest of the 1960s was defined by the war in Vietnam and by ...
Documentary tells little-known story of Japanese-Canadian civil rights photographer
CBC via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoA new documentary looking at the life of Japanese-Canadian photographer and civil rights activist...