This is the grave of Hosea Williams. Born in 1926 in Attapulgus, Georgia, Williams grew up poor. His parents had met at a school for the blind and his father.
This is the grave of Oliver Brown. Born in 1918 in Springfield, Missouri, Brown at some point moved to Topeka, Kansas and worked as a welder on the Atchison, Topeka,.
With the civil rights generation passing from the scene, it's important to remember just how many heroes there were. We are talking hundreds of people who should be famous, if.
This is a great project and I want to highlight it: The world knows the names of John Lewis and a few more of the voting rights demonstrators who walked.
I was at the Newport Folk Festival when I heard that Bob Moses had died. As I will discuss in this weekend's Music Notes post, this was a festival heavily.
We lost a true giant of justice yesterday. Gloria Richardson was not that well known anymore. But her role in the civil rights movement was transformative. In the early 1960s,.
I was reading the obituary today for Jack Geiger, the socially minded doctor who put his expertise to use in order to solve poverty. It's really fascinating. In 1970, a.
Gloria Richardson is one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. But she is far too forgotten about today. Her work in the movement in Maryland was one.
