Civil Rights movement – Page 5

Selma, then and now: reflections on an American story

March 31, 2015 By Cathy Colton

Selma 1965 represents the worst and best of America: our home-grown terrorism and abuses of power, AND the immense courage and persistence that can bring about change.

“The Butler” brings civil rights era to life

August 27, 2013

Forest Whitaker Is incapable of anything that isn't stellar. The rest of the cast, basically everybody in Hollywood, Is completely stunning.

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth: A mighty tree for civil rights

October 24, 2011 By Scott Marshall

Rev. Shuttlesworth's fingerprints are all over the history of the Civil Rights movement and his dogged determination to resist the powers of racism and inequality were legendary.

From Emmett Till to Harold Washington: Arlene Brigham: foot soldier for equality

August 12, 2005 By John Bachtell

CHICAGO — Arlene Brigham’s eyes still blaze when she talks about Emmett Till. At 88 years old she can still vividly recall the pain and outrage surrounding the lynching of the 14-year-old African American on Aug....

Honor voting rights martyrs with deeds

March 4, 2005 By Tim Wheeler

Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. The names of the three civil rights martyrs still ring like a bell four decades after they disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, June 21, 1964. Their deaths, together with the violence inflicted...