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News & Observer (blog)
April 21, 2018
Well before the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Louis Austin of Durham was a determined black man. In the early 1930's, Austin sat in the whites-only section of the segregated Carolina Theater. After a concert, Austin bragged in public that “white people would never force him to sit in the buzzard roost ...
New York Times
April 20, 2018
In New Orleans, a new section of Press Street is being renamed after Homer Plessy, the early Civil Rights activist whose case for riding in a whites-only train car led to the Supreme Court's “separate but equal” ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. The New Orleans Civil Rights Movement Tour from Tours by ...
The 74
April 19, 2018
Over the course of several years, the disability rights activist has filed thousands of federal civil rights complaints against school districts and universities across the country — all part of a personal crusade to make websites accessible for people with disabilities. Lipsitt said state education departments, ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 19, 2018
In the early 1980s, McDew became an academic adviser at Metro State and “found a place in the classroom,” Smith said. When colleagues discovered his background, he began teaching classes on civil rights, human relations and black history. A skilled storyteller, his lectures captivated students.
fox4kc.com
April 19, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A new monument is coming to Kansas City's east side to honor local civil rights activists. County leaders broke ground on the "Monument to Freedom, Justice and Courage" on Wednesday inside the Leon M. Jordan Memorial Park at 31st Street and Benton Boulevard. The monument ...
Belleville News-Democrat
April 18, 2018
Eric Vickers, a civil rights attorney and activist who fought for justice for people on both sides of the river, died Friday. He was 65. East St. Louis contractor Bill Mason, who worked with Vickers for 18 years, said, "I've known him since he was a mere lad. His father brought him and his two brothers to my ...
Dallas Voice
April 18, 2018
Red Wing was executive director of the LGBT rights organization One Iowa from 2012 to 2016, leaqding the organization through the battle for marriage equality and then into other civil rights arenas. One Iowa's current executive director, Daniel Hoffman-Zinnel, said Red Wing was “a force to be reckoned ...
Orlando Sentinel
April 18, 2018
As talks heated up about John Young Parkway expanding into their neighborhood, civil rights activist Rufus Brooks stood against the move with his trademark vigor. Even when his oldest child, Byron Brooks, who at the time was a graduate student studying planning, tried to explain the need for the road in ...
Madison.com
April 18, 2018
I admired what she accomplished, and this state has lost a great civil rights pioneer. Vel was a kind & good person, she will be missed. It's important that we all continue Vel's legacy in fighting for justice & equality." State Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse) said she met Phillips several ...
Philly.com
April 17, 2018
In Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, it was the first time a group of nonviolent voting-rights activists tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to march to Montgomery. State troopers on horseback had galloped into a crowd of about 100 marchers, swinging billy clubs, firing tear gas, and knocking over marchers.
Canton Repository
April 10, 2018
Smith and his fellow civil rights activists had been imprisoned for leading a march to the county courthouse. Smith saw McDew a week before his death when some of the SNCC members gathered to create the SNCC Legacy Project. Smith said McDew was his usual self — singing out of tune and sharing ...
The Times and Democrat
April 9, 2018
Charles “Chuck” McDew, prominent civil rights activist and past chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, died April 3, according to ... He was retired from Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis, Minn., where his classes in the history of the civil rights movement, African-American history ...
CNN
April 4, 2018
Washington (CNN) To civil rights activist Heather Booth, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination felt like a rupture. ... For activists across the country, it certainly did not signify an end. .... On that front, activists think there is still work to be done -- and there is concern that the cause has been diluted. The Rev ...
The Independent
April 4, 2018
On the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King's death, a new generation of activists and civil rights leaders is forming and attempting to change the country amid debates on ... Patrisse Cullors, a Los Angeles-based African-American artist and activist, is just one of many attempting to fulfil King's dream.
Dayton Daily News
April 3, 2018
Michael Luther King, Jr. with his wife Coretta Scott King at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. News-Sun file photo by Howard O. Weber. Jessie Gooding felt like he lost a close friend when he heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago today. Gooding, 91, of Dayton, is a local ...
Eyewitness News
April 3, 2018
JOHANNESBURG - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's legacy is being remembered in the United States where civil rights activists continue to pay tribute to her. ... They recognise her as a lifelong activist and stalwart advocate against apartheid, adding that she dedicated her life to the same mission the NAACP ...
Wgnsradio
April 3, 2018
A civil rights activist, educator and political leader from Mississippi and a Minnesota colleague helping to ensure those activists' place in history will visit ... Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement" at 4:15 p.m. Thursday in the State Farm Lecture Hall, Room S-102, in MTSU's Business and Aerospace Building.
New York Times
April 3, 2018
And, like many black clergy members, he is grappling with how to use that power in an activist climate that has drastically shifted in style and substance since the civil rights era. Bishop Blake is one of ... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most famous preacher-activists in history. But more than bowing ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
April 3, 2018
The son Robstown restaurant operators, Guerra developed into one of the iconic civil rights leaders for a generation of Mexican Americans who wanted to change the world and were willing to march, speak and get involved in politics no matter the cost. Guerra, who went on to become a syndicated and ...
The Texas Observer
April 3, 2018
On Tuesday, the group, represented by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA), filed a Title VI Civil Rights complaint with four federal agencies that provide funding to the school district. If the agencies accept the complaint, they might delay the project while they assess the effect it will have on Chamizal.
The Diamondback
April 2, 2018
During the event, Hicks, 83, advocated for peace and justice as she discussed prominent women in the Civil Rights Movement, including Nina Simone, a famous singer and activist; Frances Murphy, an editor of The Afro American; and Ethel Lois Payne, a pioneering African-American journalist known as ...
WTTV CBS4Indy
April 2, 2018
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – In 1965, Leon Riley was a minister in California. That year, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. issued a call for Americans to join him in Selma, Alabama, for a march to Montgomery. Upon hearing the invite, Riley jumped at the chance. “It's one of the most important thing I've ever done, ever ...
The Atlantic
March 23, 2018
The activists hope that the events of the upcoming weekend can have the same kind of impact as the civil-rights-era March on Washington on August 28, 1963. But their nascent ... The actor and activist Harry Belafonte said, “We had to seize this opportunity and make our voices heard. Make those who are ...
WGNO
March 12, 2018
NEW ORLEANS -- The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was a time when many different groups worked toward a better day. One of ... CORE began in 1942 in Chicago to help steer civil rights. Rudy Lombard, a prominent Civil Rights activist, served as chairman of the New Orleans chapter.
WMC Action News 5
March 12, 2018
The Forrest County Board of Supervisors approved money to be used in the development of a memorial for civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer, Sr. Monday. (Photo source: WDAM.) ...
Hattiesburg American
March 12, 2018
Forrest County supervisors voted to build a memorial to honor the late civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, who was killed when his house was firebombed in 1966. He worked to get people in Hattiesburg registered to vote. Lici Beveridge/Hattiesburg American. vernon dahmer 403 jpg. Vernon Dahmer Sr.
Alabama NewsCenter
March 11, 2018
On this day in Alabama history: Civil rights activist James Reeb died James Reeb (1927-1965) was a social worker and Unitarian Universalist minister who was killed by segregationists in Selma in 1965. Reeb's death played a pivotal role in passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Congress.
Thehour.com
March 11, 2018
When Tito Craige, a friend of Morganstern's cousin, Warren Mersereau, heard of Morganstern's death, he felt it couldn't have been an accident. During Morganstern's time in Mississippi, the FBI had foiled a KKK plot to bomb a Jewish businessman's home there; a young civil rights activist from the North was ...
CNN
March 10, 2018
... to the civil rights activist's arrest when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955. As for anyone today aspiring to have an impact like Parks or Lewis, Winfrey said she made her donation to ensure that young activists without financial means would still be ...
WSFA
March 3, 2018
Mayor Todd Strange announced this week that the city would have a ceremony to honor Colvin and her role in the Civil Rights Movement. Margaret Burch, who was on the bus with Colvin the day of her arrest, spoke at the ceremony. “I was coming from work and she was coming from school and when the ...
WSFA
March 2, 2018
About nine months before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on Montgomery bus. She was arrested on March 2, 1955. Because Colvin was just 15 at the time, the NAACP decided that Rosa Parks would be a better model to fight the segregated bus system.
The Providence Journal
March 1, 2018
R.I. civil rights activist Clifford Montiero honored at Black History Month Breakfast .... When he and his fellow activists realized there were no black teachers, they traveled to Florida A&M University and persuaded a dozen graduates to move to Providence, where many children had never seen a black ...
Law.com
March 1, 2018
Sally Yates Joins Civil Rights Activist in Call for Gun Control, Challenge to Administration. Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates and longtime civil rights activist Vernon Jordan Jr. of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld called for serious debate on gun control and urged their audience not to lose ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
February 24, 2018
John Lewis stood before a room of state and national leaders gathered Saturday at the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The 78-year-old activist reflected on the courageous, determined work of the Mississippi Freedom Riders, who joined forces to fight segregation and empower African-Americans to ...
St. Louis American
December 31, 1999
Eric Vickers, renowned civil rights activist, attorney and former Chief of Staff for State Senator Jamilah Nasheeed, has passed away today (Friday, April 13). “Eric Vickers was a catalyst for change. He was an activist, getting involved in protest and politics at an early age. He knew the world could be a better ...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
The civil rights activist was convicted of defrauding the province of a one-penny tax — the difference in tax between a downstairs and upstairs ticket — even though Desmond had asked to pay the difference. She was released after paying a $20 fine and $6 in court costs. She appealed her conviction but ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
A Russian civil rights activist who was put on trial for posting online videos deemed by authorities as "extremist" has received a suspended two-year prison sentence. Moscow's Nagatino District Court on March 7 also barred activist Mark Galperin from running public or nongovernmental organizations for ...
KPBS
December 31, 1999
Friend of Cesar Chavez Sees Remnants Of Civil Rights Activist In Today's Protests ... Above: LeRoy Chatfield pictured with Cesar Chavez outside the Tulare County jail in Porterville, Calif., just after Chatfield bailed out the civil rights ... Civil rights activist Cesar Chavez would have turned 91 on Saturday.
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of black civil rights leaders led an act of civil disobedience outside of House Speaker Paul Ryan's office in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, demanding Congress provides a path to citizenship for young immigrants brought illegally into the country without eroding visa ...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
Oprah Compares Florida Shooting Survivors To Civil Rights Activists. “It's a proud ... Oprah Winfrey is continuing to rally behind the young survivors of this month's deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, calling them “warriors of the light” and comparing them to the activists of the civil rights movement.
WBRC FOX6 News
December 31, 1999
Members of the bi-partisan congressional delegation are on a commemorative civil rights pilgrimage honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The three-day journey kicked off in Memphis on Friday. Saturday, nearly 30 members of congress were in Montgomery visiting the southern poverty ...
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