civil rights – People's World

Organizations band together to oppose, prevent voter suppression

October 17, 2024 By Mark Gruenberg

Groups including Common Cause, civil rights groups, labor organizations, lawyers and many others are mobilizing to stop Republican attempts to take the election away from the people.

Labor and civil rights icon, Bill Lucy, dies at 90

September 30, 2024 By Mark Gruenberg

He helped assemble and lead the famous “I Am a Man” unionization drive in Memphis in 1968.

Reverend James Lawson Jr. ¡Presente!

June 27, 2024 By Special to People’s World

Civil rights activist hailed by MLK as a leading theorist of nonviolence dies.

Separate is never equal: The Daily Worker’s 1954 Brown v. Board coverage

May 17, 2024 By People’s World

Even on the day of the decision, racist reaction was already rearing its head across the segregated South.

Poor People’s Campaign mobilizing massive movement vote for 2024 and beyond

April 30, 2024 By Mark Gruenberg

“This is a movement vote, not a political vote,” Rev. Barber declares as he announces plans to enroll up to 18 million new voters and for a June 29 Mass March on Washington.