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A striking new mural in northeast Paris celebrates Josephine Baker – American-born performer, French Resistance spy, and ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Sioux Falls man known as an advocate for civil rights and Black history, along with his sculptures, has died. Porter Williams died Sunday at the age of 82, accord… ...
Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music that ...
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 ...
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.
Not only was Cox a legendary folk singer, but he was known, too, as a fighter for social justice during the Civil Rights Movement. Cox died Friday. He was 82. The story was first reported by KCUR.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A home on the corner of 10th Avenue and 17th Street in Huntington is being restored. The house belonged to Memphis Tennessee Garrison, a woman whose impact is still felt ...
The Civil Rights Movement was a defense of citizens whose lawful rights under the 14th and 15th amendments were systematically ignored. Illegal immigrants have no right under the law to stay here.