What Is the '50 States' Anti-Trump Protest Movement? What to Know About 50501
A social media movement is taking to the streets to protest recent moves by President Donald Trump. Here's how it got started ...
Barbara Pope Was a Civil Rights Activist Who Refused to Give Up Her Seat on a Segregated Train
Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.
Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
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Discover How Four Black College Students Sparked a Nationwide Civil Rights Movement, on This Date in 1960
The Greensboro sit-in provided a template for nonviolent resistance and marked an early success for the civil rights movement. But it would take until 1964 for the Civil Rights Act to make ...
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10 modern champions shape Civil Rights Movement in America
Meet the powerful voices leading Civil Rights Movement 2.0, from attorneys to community organizers, as they tackle systemic racism and advocate for Black lives.
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Ruth Ann Butler, a civil rights leader, Black historian, and Cultural Exchange founder, dies
She grew up near Ackley Road during the 1940s and 50s and survived many of the ... It was at that time when she got involved in the Civil Rights Movement by participating in lunch counter sit ...
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No, John Roberts, You Are Not a Civil Rights Hero
Because so much of what we are seeing in our profession and among conservative judges and litigators is this traumatic response to the heroism of the Civil Rights Movement and the work of civil ...
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Community honors civil rights pioneers on the 65th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in
Today’s breakfast was a moment for celebration and reflection as participants gathered to hear messages about fighting for ...