Johnson was a key figure in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, frequently arrested for his activism. He organized protests ...
The civil rights organizer helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters and later became a ...
From former presidents to an NBA Hall of Famer to prominent church pastors, stories of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s influence ...
Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of ...
As I was setting out candidate signs at the library before election day voting, the person parking next to me rolled down his ...
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The Untold Story of Jimmie Lee Jackson, Whose Killing Sparked the ‘Bloody Sunday’ Marches
We know the leaders of the movement, but how well do you know the story behind the 26-year-old martyr whose death sparked ...
Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to ...
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