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The power and hope of the March on Washington

August 27, 2013 By Joelle Fishman

It was thrilling to travel from New Haven to Washington with a bus full of young people age 7 on up looking for hope and eager to act. At the march, they collected over 200 signatures...

St. Louis fast food workers fight discrimination

August 27, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

St. Louis fast-food chains - among others across the nation - are attempting to intimidate low-wage activists, as they gear up for the nationwide strike. planned for this Thursday, August 29.

King’s dream confronted “giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism”

August 27, 2013 By Judith LeBlanc

After Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam, he received a barrage of criticism from editorial boards, donors and even other civil rights leaders.

Civil rights 2013: a cautionary tale from Alabama

August 23, 2013 By Scott Douglas

In July of 1963, I was preparing for my senior year at Nashville's Pearl High School. For me, news about the civil rights movement became an unsettling blend of darkest tragedies and heady victories.

1963 March on Washington transformed my town

August 23, 2013 By Bob Tripp

This is the story of one direct outcome of the 1963 March on Washington, to which I went as a member of the Huntington Township Committee on Human Relations in Suffolk County, Long Island.