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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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‘Segregation Had to Be Invented’ – The Atlantic
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
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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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Getting Held Back in Racial Justice Class
What did the Black Lives Matter movement accomplish? Writer Jeff Chang reflects on a complicated year.
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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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Can School Integration Make a Comeback?
In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education declared that separate schools for black students and white students should be dismantled with “all deliberate speed.”
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Obama’s lawyers challenge the money bail system: Can people be kept in jail just because they are poor?
President Obama’s civil rights lawyers are seeking a potentially far-reaching ruling to hold that the Constitution forbids the common practice of keeping people in jail prior to a trial, even for minor offenses, just because they are too poor to pay for bail.
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Race, Civil Rights and Photography – KOLUMN Magazine
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders relied on the power of photographs to persuade and to motivate.
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