Georgia Gilmore – who fed & funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Georgia Gilmore started the Club From Nowhere, a clandestine group that prepared and sold meals to raise money for the 381-day resistance action. It took...
Category : Civil Rights
Robert F. Williams
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The first African American civil rights leader to advocate armed resistance to racial oppression and violence, Robert F. Williams was born on February 26, 1925,...
Jews in the Civil Rights Movement
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Nowhere did Jews identify themselves more forthrightly with the liberal avant-garde than in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. It was an uneven identification....
Blacks and Jews Entangled
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In her 1991 memoir, Deborah, Golda, and Me, Letty Cottin Pogrebin argued that black-Jewish relationships rested on a common history of oppression. “Both blacks and...
Claudia Jones
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With the birth name of Claudia Cumberbatch, Claudia Jones was born on February 21, 1915, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Her family migrated to the United States...
Archibald James Carey Jr.
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Archibald James Carey Jr. enjoyed an illustrious and influential career that spanned many spheres of public life. Following in the footsteps of his father, Archibald...
Martin Luther King, Sr
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Martin Luther King, Sr., born Michael King Sr., was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement and the father of the iconic civil rights...
State of Missouri vs Celia, a Slave: 1855
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Case Summary: Celia, a Slave Defendant: Celia, an enslaved woman Charge: Murder Defense Attorneys: Isaac M. Boulware, John Jameson, Nathan Chapman Kouns Prosecutor: Robert Prewitt...
Donald L. Hollowell: Legendary attorney who kept MLK out of prison
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During Donald Hollowell’s career as a prominent civil rights attorney, he represented Martin Luther King several times, beginning in October 1960, when King was arrested...
Dick Gregory
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A Legacy of Comedy, Activism, and Inspiration Richard Claxton Gregory, known to the world as Dick Gregory, was a multifaceted individual whose impact on American...