Civil Rights movement
From Emmett Till to Harold Washington: Arlene Brigham: foot soldier for equality
August 12, 2005CHICAGO — 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....
Read moreHonor voting rights martyrs with deeds
March 4, 2005Chaney, 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...
Read moreHattie Lumpkin, Mother and Fighter for Socialism
July 15, 2004The women who marched to save women’s lives in Washington, DC this month were standing on the shoulders of giants. Hattie Lumpkin or “Ma” was one of those giants.
Read moreEight days in May: Birmingham and the struggle for civil rights
May 22, 2003The eight days between May 2 and May 10, 1963, when thousands of school children in Birmingham, Ala., defied the fire hoses and police dogs of Eugene “Bull” Connor, marked a turning point in the civil...
Read moreMemphis 1968: We remember
April 3, 2003An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)
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