60th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ marked in Selma amid concerns about future of voting rights
Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were ...
60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ leaders say voting rights and racial equality have declined
Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...
Killed For Voting Then, Blocked From Voting Now: A History Of Attacks On Black Political Power
From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.
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How a central Illinois reverend helped shape American civil and voting rights
The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack ...
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Commemorating 60 years since 'Bloody Sunday' and the fight for voting rights
Her photo, beaten and bloody, became a galvanizing cry to guarantee voting rights for Black Americans. And the day of peaceful protest that devolved into state-sanctioned violence was coined ...
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Do you know the man who helped thousands of Black voters register in Alabama and fight for civil rights?
He was among the first rows of people who crossed the Edmond Pettus Bridge on what is known as "Bloody Sunday." ...
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The Right To Vote: A struggle for the rights for African-Americans to vote through century
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 wouldn’t be signed into law until Aug. 6. But it would be a game-changer for Black Americans. Black men vote in their first election soon after the end of the Civil ...
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Where 20 Black Civil Rights Leaders Went to College
He co-founded the Black Leadership Forum, a consortium of advocacy groups, and over decades campaigned for voting rights and LGBTQ rights as well as against apartheid and the death penalty.
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Harry T. Moore: Civil rights pioneer led 1000s of black Floridians to vote
It was his insistence on equal rights and his refusal to be intimidated ... Moore got over 116,000 blacks to vote. Remember, voting is a big thing, and for Harry T. Moore to do that, he traveled ...
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The Black church’s role in Civil Rights and social justice continues to grow
The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation’s founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith, and the fight for Civil Rights across the ...
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Mississippi has rich Black history. See Civil Rights sites, where blues music was born
Black History Month is a time to honor the contributions and culture of Black Americans. Many museums and historic sites in Mississippi are dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement. The Mississippi ...