voting rights
Missouri Republicans fail to achieve much of their agenda
May 21, 2014"Their whole legislative agenda revolves around this one central idea: Weaken unions and increase profits for big corporations."
Read moreToday in women’s history: Civil rights leader and suffragist Ida B. Wells died
March 25, 2014Wells was an outstanding civil rights activist and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Read moreInternational Women’s Day: Born in the USA
March 11, 2014nternational Women's Day, grew from the struggle of working women to form trade unions and the fight for women's right to vote.
Read moreToday in black history: Civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson dies, becomes catalyst for Selma march
February 26, 2014Twenty-six year old civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson died this day, Feb. 26, 1965, from gunshot wounds inflicted by Alabama State Trooper after marching in a peaceful protest.
Read moreAFL-CIO calls for restoration of the Voting Rights Act
February 20, 2014The AFL-CIO's executive council unanimously passed a resolution Feb. 19 calling for the passage of strong federal legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act.
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