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PLAY Episode Date: March 27, 2025 Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and ...
(Courtesy of Hachette Book Group) Find part 2 of our conversation with Peniel Joseph here. The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
Last week, a report from Black Press USA suggested that the Greensboro lunch counter display — a centerpiece artifact from the Civil Rights Movement — would be removed from the National Museum ...
2. Rosa Parks Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. Born ...
The Civil Rights Act was signed into law in 1964. But the Rev. C.T. Vivian's signal achievement may have been the Voting Rights Act, enacted almost 60 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1965.
Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American preservationist.
If you would like to know more about the civil rights movement in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, visit the KTAL Caddo Parish Civil Rights Trail Project webpage. The project is a collaboration between ...
From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick ...