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 across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 only to be attacked by Alabama state troopers...
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scan from 4x5 BW copy negative On August 29, 1935, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters signed its first contract with the Pullman Car Company, breaking that company's long anti-union.
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, she was the leader of the civil rights movement on Maryland's eastern shore, based in...
A week before he died in 1973, Lyndon Johnson sat down for a long interview about his civil rights record. It was the last interview he ever gave. It's worth.
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 of the most important moments of the 1960s. Today, Richardson is 98. And she has...
When I was reading Andrew Sandoval-Strausz's book Barrio America in preparation for the podcast with him, I noticed he mentioned a 1961 film titled Dallas at the Crossroads. Narrated by.
This is the grave of Jonathan Daniels. Born in 1939 in Keene, New Hampshire, Daniels was a young man moved by duty. He grew up Congregationalist but while he went.
Bill Clinton decided to use John Lewis' funeral to take a shot at Stokely Carmichael. The last thing we need is whites to use such opportunities to tell histories of the civil rights movements that are used to make them feel comfortable. Both Lewis and...
One of the worst parts of the grotesque and false right-wing attacks on Shirley Sherrod back in 2010 is that she had been an activist for Black land ownership for.
On September 29, 1962, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced Operation Breadbasket, a boycott campaign against companies that refused to hire African-Americans. This was part of the larger civil rights.