As we celebrate Black History Month, here are eight African American attorneys who pioneered the way for generations of legal scholars by challenging the preconceived bias and bigotry of an entire nation.
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The Civil Rights Pastor Who Declared ‘I Am a Man’ | The Daily Beast
James Lawson was a Civil Rights icon who saw the need for the fight to include economic inequality. He also unintentionally doomed King by inviting him to Memphis.
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Echoes of Lynchings in Quiet Photos | The New York Times
Oliver Clasper traveled through the United States seeking spaces where lynchings took place, ranging from the American south to New York City.
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Ministers Look to Revive Martin Luther King’s 1968 Poverty Campaign | The New York Times
When 12 religious leaders in collars and vestments were arrested last week in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, they were reading Bible verses about caring for the poor, and doing it so loudly that their voices could be heard at the doors of senators’ office suites nine stories above.
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TV movie pays tribute to Rosa Parks’ movement | New York Post
The film portrays the events surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted from December 1955 to December 1956.
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Remembering the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike | AFRO
A War for Black Respect—“I Am A Man”
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Wyatt Tee Walker, Dr. King’s Strategist and a Harlem Leader, Dies at 88 | The New York Times
“If it wasn’t for Birmingham, there wouldn’t have been a Selma march, there wouldn’t have been a 1965 civil rights bill.”
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Noted AME Bishop and Theologian, John Hurst Adams, Dies at 90 | AFRO
Bishop John Hurst Adams, one of the staples of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, died recently at the age of 90.
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Black Student Power in Boston | The Weekly Challenger
The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates popular and academic accounts of Boston’s civil rights movement.
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Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer | The Undefeated
Founder of new anti-racism center at American University sees impact of policy, culture on black athletes.
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