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Follow live updates as the military parade in Washington, D.C., kicks off on Trump's birthday. 'No Kings' protests by ...
Across the country, relatively few disruptions were reported during protests and marches where the mood ranged from joyful to ...
Food and restaurants played a surprisingly important role in the civil rights movement (Credit: Getty Images) From a Memphis fried chicken joint to a tamale counter in Jackson, these restaurants ...
American history and culture. On one hand, it still felt like the ‘50s in many parts of the country: crew cuts, corner diners ...
Reed also said Civil Rights Movement activists dealt with more adversity than modern protesters because there weren’t many elected Black officials to give assistance and aid. Local and national ...
As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement to make their case about subsidizing ...
Dr. Reiland Rabaka In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores how rock & roll helped shape the Civil Rights Movement and American ...
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: The ...
April 11 marks a century since the birth of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the Detroit mother of five murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement.