Today’s young people, too, should have the chance to know what the Civil Rights Act means for them ... Mississippi in which to live.” As Archie Richard of Benton County wrote, with a 12 ...

José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, a prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader and founder of the Young Lords Organization ... "opposing Mayor Richard J. Daley’s gentrification plans, reshaping ...

Washington County supervisors allowed a handful of public comments from advocates asking for a local civil rights ordinance Tuesday morning, but say they still don't plan to take action on it for the ...

A gala honoring civil rights icon, former Atlanta mayor and former United States Ambassador Andrew Young will be held on Monday evening. The event will celebrate Young's legacy and decades of ...

A handful of local advocacy groups are asking the Washington County Board of Supervisors to draft and vote on a resolution ...

Throughout the country in the early 1960s, the issues of civil rights — voter’s rights ... but mostly absent on Broadway. In 1962, Richard Rodgers produced the first musical he had attempted ...

“Stop in the Name of Love,” “Love Child,” “I’m Livin’ in Shame,” and “The Young Folks ... Rabaka, Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

Following in her footsteps were the women who made a difference in our city by taking the lead during the Civil Rights Movement ... civil disobedience, the young people became heroes of the ...

José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, a prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader ... to his work with the Young Lords, Jiménez was also the first candidate to run against Mayor Richard J.