Recently, I have been listening to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s engaging memoir, “An Unfinished Love Story,” which chronicles her husband Dick Goodwin’s experiences as advisor and speech writer to both John ...
From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...
From Birmingham to Selma to Montgomery, eight historic landmarks trace the courage, sacrifice, and strategy that drove one of ...
More than a century after his birth, the voice of Malcolm X still echoes with the same urgency, clarity, and unapologetic ...
"The history of struggle for voting rights is personal," said lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who is from Delaware and founded a ...
Begining with a morning prayer at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to the climactic rally on the steps of the Alabama ...
A crowd of thousands gathered in front of the city’s historic Alabama Capitol, the place where the Confederacy was formed in ...
Hearing about the recent Supreme Court decision altering the 1965 Voting Rights Act started me thinking about a local ...
As Republicans destroy historic Black-majority House districts in the South, they are being compared with segregationists ...
Press Robinson was part of a proud generation of young Black Americans who witnessed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) being signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. After only 60 years since the ...
It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the South after Reconstruction.
For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...
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