The Rollback of the Civil-Rights Movement Is the Singular Moral Failure of Modern American Conservatism
The eye of Sauron descends on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, eventually, Brown v. Board of Education.
Both sides of the school voucher debate are invoking the Civil Rights Movement. Who is right?
Sen. Ted Cruz has likened vouchers to “the civil rights issue of our time." But critics note they were used in the 1950s to ...
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Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement
Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administration’s vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and ...
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From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
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Remembering Viola Gregg Liuzzo, One of Many Influential Figures for Civil Rights
Viola Gregg Liuzzo, a California, Pa. native, is known as the only white woman to have been murdered during the Civil Rights ...
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America Needs a New Free Speech Movement
Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of ...
‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...
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How a central Illinois reverend helped shape American civil and voting rights
The American civil rights movement, a mass protest campaign against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States, came to national prominence during the mid-1950s.
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The Great Resegregation
The memo states that the administration seeks ... “This is really taking us back to a kind of pre-civil-rights-movement vision of America,” Sherrilyn Ifill, the former head of the NAACP ...
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‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American preservationist. When he discovered no ...