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Tag: Civil Rights Movement

Posted inNational

Bakari Sellers Reflects on History with Eye Toward Future

by Stacy M. Brown February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

At 22, Bakari Sellers had already made history. The son of civil rights icon Cleveland Sellers, Bakari stunned the political world by defeating a 26-year incumbent state representative to become […]

Posted inLifestyle

Ruby Bridges to Pen Children’s Books About Civil Rights

by Sarafina Wright –Washington Informer Staff Writer January 26, 2022January 26, 2022
Christopher and Maxine McNair, whose 11-year-old daughter Denise McNair was murdered along with three other young girls on Sept. 15, 1963, hold a press conference on Sept. 20, 1963. (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)
Posted inBlack History

Maxine McNair, 93, the Last Living Parent of the 1963 Birmingham Bombing Victims, Dies

by Laura Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor January 13, 2022January 13, 2022
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. This was a few months after her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated municipal bus in Montgomery, Alabama. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inOpinion

MORIAL: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Roused People to Demand Equal Rights

by WI Guest Author December 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Remembering Bob Moses

by WI Guest Author August 4, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience

Bob Moses, Civil Rights Legend, Dead at 86

by Stacy M. Brown July 25, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inOp-Ed

MORIAL: The Goals of Our Civil Rights Movement Will Not Be Realized Until D.C. Statehood is Achieved

by WI Guest Author June 30, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inNational

Biden Announces First Nominees for Board to Review Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases

by Stacy M. Brown June 11, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inNational

Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Icon and Clinton Adviser, Dies at 85

by Stacy M. Brown March 3, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inNational

Late Civil Rights Icon John Lewis’ Birthday Marked by Renewed Calls for Action on Voting Rights

by WI Guest Author February 22, 2021December 21, 2021

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