This is the grave of Rev. Joseph Lowery. Born in 1921 in Huntsville, Alabama, Lowery grew up in the Black middle class of that city. His father owned a business and his mother was a teacher. But of course none of that would get in...
civil rights
One of the all-time legends has passed. SNCC veteran, came to activation in the Albany movement, founded the Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, total all time great.
As I say frequently, it is extremely unfortunate that our vision of the civil rights movement has been reduced to just a few people in public memory. This doesn't surprise.
As the generation of activists who pushed the civil rights movement forward passes from the scene, it at least gives us an opportunity to remember them one last time. Or, you know, at all. Even those people who pay attention to the social movements of...
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,.
Whites in Chicago protesting against the Martin Luther King led campaign to desegregate housing, 1966.
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.
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 history and providing a breakthrough for Black workers in America. This successful campaign laid the...
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,.