Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
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[Opinion] Civil Rights Lawyer On Whether Trump’s Blow to the Equal Employment Opportunity Act Will Stick
As expected, President Donald J. Trump has signed a slew of executive orders undoing decades of hard work people had put in ...
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Before Montgomery, the Highlander Folk School trained leaders in nonviolent civil rights protest
Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy at Highlander Folk School in 1957. The Cumberland ridge of middle Tennessee may seem to be a far cry from the ...
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SMC hosts lecture on historic and local Black women of the Civil Rights Movement
The Saint Mary's Division for Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Gender and Women's Studies Department hosted the 'Hidden in Plain Sight' lecture to highlight historical Black women, including South ...