Civil Rights Movement Archives - Page 3 of 26 - The Washington Informer

**FILE** A poster hanging downtown in June 2020 as people took to the streets to protest the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020. (Micha Green/The Washington Informer)

MARSHALL: George Floyd’s Death Should Not Be in Vain

by David W. Marshall June 4, 2025June 4, 2025

**FILE** President Donald J. Trump signs executive orders on Jan. 20, 2025. (Courtesy of the White House)

CBCF Unveils Executive Order Tracker to Protect Black Communities

by Stacy M. Brown March 14, 2025March 14, 2025

The Colored National Labor Union remains a testament to the resilience and determination of Black laborers striving for dignity and fairness in the workforce. The organization’s establishment highlighted the prejudice within labor unions, demonstrating Black Americans’ capacity to organize at a national level and challenge racial and economic injustices. (Courtesy photo)

The Colored National Labor Union: The Blueprint for Black Workers’ Rights

by Mya Trujillo February 26, 2025February 27, 2025

Hattie Canty was the first Black woman elected to lead a culinary worker’s union, and her tenure included the longest strike in American labor history. She also opened a Culinary Training Center that is still operating to this day. (Courtesy photo)

Hattie Canty: One of America’s Greatest Strike Leaders

by Richard D. Elliott February 26, 2025February 26, 2025

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Examples to Embrace

by Marian Wright Edelman February 26, 2025February 26, 2025

Arts

HBO’s Eyes on the Prize III Revisits Black America’s Modern Civil Rights Struggles

by Stacy M. Brown February 17, 2025February 19, 2025

Septima Poinsette Clark is an unsung hero of the civil rights movement. She proved that knowledge is power through her various education workshops and citizenship schools, enriching students with the necessary information to return to their communities and empower others. (Courtesy photo)

How Septima Clark’s Education Revolutionized the Struggle for Equality

by Mya Trujillo February 12, 2025February 13, 2025

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)

Bill Would Make Rosa Parks Day First Federal Holiday Honoring Woman

by WI Web Staff February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

Find Inspiration in King’s Call to ‘Commit to the Noble Struggle’ for Equity and Justice

by Micha Green January 22, 2025January 22, 2025

**FILE** Protesters took to Capitol Hill to protest former President Donald Trump’s return to Capitol Hill on June 12, many of whom noted he has yet to take responsibility for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. (Shedrick Pelt/The Washington Informer)

EDITORIAL: Ford Pardoning Nixon Helped Reelect Trump

by WI Editorial Staff December 18, 2024December 18, 2024

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