Civil Rights movement – Page 6

Hattie Lumpkin, Mother and Fighter for Socialism

July 15, 2004 By Beatrice Lumpkin

The 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.

Eight days in May: Birmingham and the struggle for civil rights

May 22, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

The 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...

Memphis 1968: We remember

April 3, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

An 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)

Four little girls: Promises still unmet

May 31, 2002 By Tim Wheeler

Many martyrs died in the cause of freedom during the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. None touched the conscience of the nation and the world more deeply than the terrorist murder Sunday, Sept....