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June 12 has long been a date marked by transformative events across the globe, touching on politics, science, culture, and ...
If not challenged, activists say, they could set the Civil Rights Movement back decades. “It’s been a full-frontal assault, and it's left people quaking. It’s left people shaking.
Moshannon Valley Processing Center, a large ICE detention facility in west-central Pennsylvania, has drawn many civil rights ...
“The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s that birthed the 1964 Civil Rights Act was not a DEI movement,” Pierce continued. “It featured heroic fights in Selma, Birmingham ...
Mississippi's recently adopted anti-DEI laws are being challenged in a lawsuit filed against state's education boards.
The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen ...
A Love Story At The Center Of The Civil Rights Movement : Fresh Air MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid tells the story of Medgar Evers and his wife Myrlie. Medgar was the NAACP field secretary in ...
Civil rights leader Fred Gray called for a second civil rights movement to address ongoing injustices faced by Black Americans. He urged continued action, echoing the late Congressman John ...
A water fountain. A lunch counter. A seat on a public bus. Access to these things might sound simple, but the Civil Rights Movement thrust them deeply and permanently into our national fabric ...
New Haven: Yale University Press. Bullard, Sara. (1993). Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: ...