How Confederate symbols still shape history: Join the discussion
The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum in Loudonville wraps up its Speaker Series April 21 with an examination of how Confederate ...
'Segregation and Democracy Don’t Mix': The 1963 Freedom Marches in downtown Nashville
It was the early spring of 1963, Saturday, March 23, and again on Saturday, March 30, to be exact when a group of ...
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Loudonville museum examines the shifting legacy of Civil War symbols
The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series wraps up on Monday, April 21 with a thought-provoking program titled “Statues, ...
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Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Marks Continued Fight for Voting Rights
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
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God Will Fight For Natasha: Nigeria's Trending ‘Poster Girl’ For Women’s Rights
Without a doubt, with the ongoing fight, Natasha has become a phenomenon, a movement and a symbol of resistance. There is no denying the fact that Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, a lawyer, politician, and ...
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The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S.
It included just 28 words, but a single sentence transformed the civil rights of women in the United ... Alice Paul and other leaders of the suffragist movement celebrate the passing of the ...
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Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights
Moss, David, and Dean Grodzins. "Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights." Harvard Business School Case 716-042, February 2016. (Revised August 2021.) ...
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Community mourns the loss of civil rights activist Dr. Charles Kimbrough
As a member of the civil rights movement, he introduced many to the organization and its mission. In a statement to News 2 on Kimbrough’s legacy and efforts in the Nashville, a representative ...
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50501 Movement to March in Richmond on March 4 in Defense of Women’s Rights
The 50501 Movement has been rapidly growing since its formation, staging peaceful protests nationwide to challenge what it describes as attacks on democracy and civil rights. Using hashtags like ...
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Hazel Dukes, civil rights advocate and NAACP leader, dies at 92
Propelled a movement': Looking forward and back as the Civil Rights Act turns 60 Dukes was one of few women to lead the NAACP, succeeding Enolia McMillan as president in 1990. She held that ...
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Hazel Dukes, New York civil rights leader, dies at 92
Dr. Hazel Dukes, an iconic civil rights leader and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at age 92. Dukes died peacefully Saturday morning, Ronald Dukes, her son, said in a ...
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Iowa becomes first state to end transgender civil rights protections
Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip transgender citizens of civil rights protections. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class in the ...