10 Black Leaders Who Take Your Civil Rights Seriously
As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...
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14 Black women who proved they were the real architects of the Civil Rights Movement
As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...
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Milestones Of The Civil Rights Movement
The city and state, however, insisted that bus drivers continue to enforce Jim Crow laws ... the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the ...
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American Socialists: Study the Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement leaned heavily on trade unions ... The two bills sounded the death knell for Jim Crow. And they cracked open the Democratic Party, accelerating the departure of the ...
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MLK knew health was part of equity. Communities of color still face disparities. | Opinion
From slavery through Jim Crow, systemic racism excluded African ... restricted access to essential care. Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation, systemic inequities ...
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Charles Person, youngest of civil rights ‘Freedom Riders’ who boarded buses to test Jim Crow laws
Yet he managed to break away and catch a city bus, making his way to the home of the Rev Fred Shuttlesworth, a leading figure in the city’s civil rights movement, where he was joined by other ...