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,.
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.
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.
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.
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.
