Celebrating Black History Month: How COFO helped the Mississippi civil rights movement
COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an ...
10 Black Leaders Who Take Your Civil Rights Seriously
As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...
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Frequently Asked Questions about the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a tax-exempt, charitable organization incorporated in 1971 under Section 501 (c) (3) of ...
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Important Dallas civil rights advocate honored Sunday
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. once visited Juanita Craft in her 1,300-square-foot South Dallas home ...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Labor pioneer A. Philip Randolph’s living legacies are today’s Black union leaders
A host of tributes across America recognize the achievements of pioneering Black union leader A. Philip Randolph — his ...
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Two pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement, Charles Person and Thomas Gaither
For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...
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Civil Rights attorney Fred Gray’s portrait installed at Smithsonian
The legendary attorney, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., will have his portrait hang permanently at the ...
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What Is the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What's Included and History
Title IX facilitated the movement of civil rights cases from state courts ... Department of Education Organization Act of 1979 The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) was created by the Department ...
Birmingham film 'I'm Still Here: A Life on Dynamite Hill' to air on PBS
Rosa Parks Day Act bill introduced to honor role in Civil Rights MovementSEE ALSO:Black History Month Trivia and Facts with ...