Civil Rights movement
Jobs, justice, preserving democracy key themes of the March on Washington
August 28, 2023Rev. Al Sharpton: “The Dreamers” Dr. King prophesied about in 1963 “are in Washington, D.C. The ‘schemers’ are being booked in Atlanta, in the Fulton County Jail.”
Read moreAnne Braden vs. white supremacy: The South’s rebel without a pause
March 7, 2023Upon meeting Anne Braden in 1957, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., said she was “the most amazing white woman” he’d ever met.
Read more‘America on Fire’: A timely look at police violence and Black rebellion
July 8, 2021Violence will not end, the author asserts, until the nation stops expecting police to manage conditions that are beyond their control.
Read moreBook highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism
May 27, 2021Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall’s 'The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World.'
Read moreEmmett Till was the first George Floyd
April 22, 2021A Black Chicago teen’s lynching in 1955 galvanized the civil rights movement. A Black Minneapolis man’s killing by police last year propelled a worldwide call for racial justice and ending police brutality.
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