Civil Rights movement
Peoria honors civil rights leader Ernestine Jackson in Juneteenth celebrations
June 28, 2024There’s no single title that can cover the breadth of all that Jackson did throughout her life.
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Reverend James Lawson Jr. ¡Presente!
June 27, 2024Civil rights activist hailed by MLK as a leading theorist of nonviolence dies.
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Separate is never equal: The Daily Worker’s 1954 Brown v. Board coverage
May 17, 2024Even on the day of the decision, racist reaction was already rearing its head across the segregated South.
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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.”
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Anne 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.
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