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We are Joaquin: the legacy of Corky

April 22, 2005 By Rosalío Muñoz

During the 1960s, the American people broke out of the McCarthy era with mass movements for peace, civil rights, women’s rights, and labor organizing of agricultural and public workers. At the same time, throughout the Southwest,...

Don’t take voting rights for granted

March 18, 2005 By Tim Wheeler

SELMA, Ala. — The Rev. C.T. Vivian of Atlanta stood in the midst of the surging crowd at the conclusion of the Bridge Crossing Jubilee here March 6. Well-wishers congratulated him on the big turnout for...

RENEW VOTING RIGHTS!

March 11, 2005 By Joyce Wheeler And Tim Wheeler

40 years after Bloody Sunday, 10,000 march in Selma SELMA, Ala. — Singing “Ain’t going to let nobody turn me round,” 10,000 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge here March 6 to protest Bush-Cheney voter suppression...

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Summer 1966

January 18, 2002 By Carolyn Black, Bill Appelhans And Fred Gaboury

The impact of the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement on the decade’s civil rights struggles was as significant as any other campaign of that era. To visit The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change,...