“I have been increasingly perturbed over the blatant disparity between the major role which Negro women have played and are playing in the crucial grass-roots levels of our struggle and the minor role of leadership they have been assigned in the national policy-making decisions… The time has come to say to you quite candidly, Mr. […]
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Fewer Americans Than Ever Believe That Civil Rights For Black Americans Have Improved | Forbes
— Airen Washington, Forbes A new Gallup poll shows a significant decline in the number of U.S. adults who believe that civil rights for Black Americans have improved in their lifetime. Of the 1,200 U.S. participants, 59% believe that civil rights for Black Americans have improved, the lowest percentage since 1995, when Gallup first began tracking this […]
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Charles Evers, Businessman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 97 | The New York Times
Galvanized by the assassination of his brother, Medgar, he helped transform Mississippi politics, running for Congress, becoming a mayor and gaining wide attention. By Robert D. McFadden, The New York Times Charles Evers, who gave up life as a petty racketeer to succeed his assassinated brother Medgar Evers as a Mississippi civil rights leader in 1963, becoming […]
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John Lewis and Two Others Attacked at South Carolina Greyhound Bus Terminal| EJI, A History of Racial Justice
On May 9, 1961, 21-year-old John Lewis, a young black civil rights activist, was severely beaten by a mob at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, Greyhound bus terminal. A few days earlier, Lewis and twelve Freedom Riders — seven black and six white — had left Washington, D.C., on a Greyhound bus headed to New […]
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Black Children Begin Movement Protesting Segregation; Face Police Brutality | EJI, A History of Racial Justice
On May 2, 1963, more than 700 black children protested racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children’s Crusade, beginning a movement that sparked widely-publicized police brutality that shocked the nation and spurred major civil rights advances. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had launched the Children’s […]
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Unita Blackwell Risked It All So Black Mississippians Could Vote | The New York Times Magazine
She was arrested dozens of times, and Klan members threw Molotov cocktails into her yard — but that didn’t stop her fight for civil rights. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On an afternoon thick with Mississippi heat, Unita Blackwell sat on the front porch of her shotgun house with her friend Coreen, drinking homemade beer, waiting for something […]
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Supreme Court seems interested in limited ruling in civil rights case | The Washington Post
In the buildup to the Supreme Court’s examination of whether cable giant Comcast refused to sign a deal with a black entertainer’s TV network, some advocates argued that the case threatened to hollow out a Reconstruction-era civil rights statute assuring equal contract rights for African Americans. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] But during hour of oral arguments Wednesday, […]
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Remembering Bayard Rustin 50 Years After the Stonewall Uprising | NYU Local
“We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers.”
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Florida Pardons the Groveland Four, 70 Years After Jim Crow-Era Rape Case | The New York Times
The Jim Crow-era case attracted widespread attention in 1949. Shortly after the rape was reported, mobs of white residents set fire to homes and property belonging to black families in the Groveland area.
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Poor People’s Campaign Launches With March on Capitol Hill | Colorlines
The campaign’s list of demands directly address the issues of systemic racism and economic inequality.
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