Paul Stephenson, 87, Dies; Advanced Britain’s Civil Rights Movement
The bus boycott and one-man pub sit-in that he led in the mid-1960s helped pave the way for a law outlawing discrimination in ...
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How Will White Women Vote? It’s a Question With a Fraught History.
By the late 1960s, the women’s movement was ascending even as the civil rights and Black Power movements were disintegrating. White-dominated feminist groups failed to endorse Shirley Chisholm ...
The New Yorker9d
A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi
As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.
New Orleans schools still separate and unequal 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education
On Nov. 15, 1960, four Black first graders desegregated New Orleans schools. One of them was Tessie Prevost, who died in July ...
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America’s ongoing struggle: white supremacy vs. everybody
With Kamala Harris’s concession, America stands at a crossroads, deciding whether to return to the foundations of White ...
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Harris, Obamas and Voting Rights Leaders Work to Turn Out Black Voters in Run-Up to Election Day
How Black communities turn out in the 2024 election has been scrutinized due to the pivotal role Black voters have played in races for the White House ... the South's Civil Rights history.
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US election 2024 results: How Black voters shifted towards Trump
Trump almost doubles support among Black voters compared with 2020, exit polls say. How and where? We break it down.
1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College ...
Miami Herald25d
People died getting voting rights for Black men and women. It’s why you need to vote | Opinion
Among those killed were three young men working in the civil rights movement ... a 21-year-old Black CORE field worker from Mississippi; Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old white CORE field worker ...