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Though we hear a lot about bombings and physical attacks, efforts to take down leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement came in many forms. Rev.…
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Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, many of the Southern states in America were segregated and openly oppressive to African Americans.…
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The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. But for Freeman Hrabowski, now president of…
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With so much on the line, one might think that everyone in the Black community would be on the same page when it came to fighting for civil rights. But…
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It seems almost natural that a movement with an aim of racial equity would include the young and the old, men and women, Northerners and Southerners, as…
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With the physical safety of civil rights workers at stake, it was imperative that trained medical practitioners be on hand during protests. The Medical…
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The courtroom was the ultimate battleground in the war for equal rights for all of America’s citizens, and among the names of African-American lawyers who…
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For former United States Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod, experiencing the death of her father at the hands of a white farmer while…