FIFTY years ago on Sunday the Detroit uprising began. Five days of violence left more than 1,400 buildings burned, more than 7,000 people arrested and 43 people dead — 33 African-Americans and 10 whites.
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Rosa Parks’ Snapshots: Candid Photos Of ‘The Girl On the Bus’ | Flashbak
Rosa Parks, the ‘Girl on the bus’ whose courageous act of defiance triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and fired the Civil Rights Movement in 1955, was no grandstanding celebrity.
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Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus | NPR
Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955.
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Remembering Beaches as Battlegrounds for Civil Rights – The Weekly Challenger
In 1960, black protesters in Biloxi, Mississippi, were attacked while demanding equal access to public beaches. Now the remaining activists are working to preserve the history of the “wade-ins” that opened the space to everyone.
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Philly’s Jim Crow hiring and business: The legacy of Cecil B. Moore – The Philadelphia Tribune
Cecil B. Moore, who was born 102 years ago on April 2, 1915, is turning over in his grave right now because the city’s Black so-called leaders still haven’t picked up the baton he tried to hand them.
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575,000 Images by Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Go to Library of Congress – Hyperallergic
The institution has acquired a massive archive of Adelman’s work, including his 1960s photographs of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Trump’s New Budget Slashes Funding for Arts, Women’s Safety and Civil Rights – Alternet
The proposed budget is a clear sign of where the contempt of this administration is aimed.
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New national monuments mark civil rights struggle, Reconstruction era – Politico
President Barack Obama has designated three new national monuments in Alabama and South Carolina to commemorate key events in the country’s Reconstruction era and civil rights movement, the White House announced on Thursday.
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Rare Photographs of the US Civil Rights Struggle Beyond the South
A new book by Mark Speltz brings together over 100 rarely or never-before-published photographs from the Civil Rights era that show its grassroots actions beyond the South.
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The Children of Civil Rights Leaders Are Keeping Their Eyes on the Prize
The next generation is following in the footsteps of its forebears.
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