He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.
I took a tour group to Alabama in 2015 to trace the American Civil Rights Trail, running in a triangle from Birmingham to Montgomery to Selma and back to Birmingham.
In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...
Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...
Kansas seldom promotes itself as a destination for Black history enthusiasts, and we’re leaving lots of potential tourist ...
In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...
The Black students were joined by white, mostly Jewish neighbors, the first interracial civil rights protest in the country.
After the “Bloody Sunday” march on March 7 ... of the Brown Chapel church with moving words that symbolized how civil rights intersected with his Jewish life: [Rabbi Sugarman] related an ...
Instead of signaling a turning of the corner in pursuit of a more perfect union, the elevation of a Black man into the White ...
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is set to display "Selma is Now: Civil Rights Photographs" a series of photos taken by ...
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I Was a DEI Boy Scout
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) also had a history of segregation it was trying to undo. Robert Baden-Powell founded the ...
For all its charm, Dublin is just one piece of Ireland. Beyond the capital’s cobbled streets and overpriced pints lies a country bursting with history, culture, and landscapes that could make even the ...