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Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement
It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...
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Civil Rights Books
The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...
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5 things to do this weekend, including Balkan Music Night and a Coretta Scott King tribute
Visitors and locals pass “The Embrace” memorial on Boston Common every day where a loving hug between Martin Luther King Jr.
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The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change
Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ...
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The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change
Coretta Scott King is often remembered as a devoted wife and mother ... many other women played essential roles in the success of the civil rights movement. Take the most iconic moment of the civil ...
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Medcalf: Play at Landmark Center highlights life of Black woman who fought for civil rights
The play also highlights a significant tie between the Civil Rights Movement and a courtroom in St. Paul. Morris was a teacher in Little Rock, Ark., who represented a union of Black teachers who ...
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A Labor Movement to the Mountaintop: ‘I Am a Man’ Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968
“The whole civil rights thing was new to me ... justice leaders continued King’s mission for equality. On April 8, a few days after her husband’s murder, Coretta Scott King led a silent march through ...
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Amid Changes at the National Archives, the Carter Library Cancels a Civil Rights Book Event
The events, which featured authors of books on climate change, homelessness and the civil rights movement, had been scheduled months earlier. But this week, the authors were told they would have ...
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Honoring Her Father’s Legacy: An Interview with Bernice A. King on the Continued Fight for Justice and Misrepresentations of MLK Jr’s Dream
Born in Atlanta in 1963 during the height of the civil rights movement ... Today, as CEO of The King Center—the living memorial established by her mother, Coretta Scott King — Dr. Bernice A. King ...
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Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases
That means that thousands of outstanding complaints filed with the department’s Office for Civil Rights related to race and gender discrimination — most of which are submitted by students and ...
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Coretta Scott King Honored, Mourned
King, who kept alive the civil rights legacy of her husband after he was assassinated in 1968, was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta throughout her life. “Praise God for Coretta Scott ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. fought for civil rights on the streets of Birmingham
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. GROWING UP IN ATLANTA, EXPERIENCING RACIAL INJUSTICE DAILY FUELED HIS DESIRE FOR CHANGE IN THE WORLD. HE AND CORETTA SCOTT MOVED TO MONTGOMERY AFTER MARRYING, AND IT’S THERE ...