Remember Selma 60 years ago in today's fight for democracy | Opinion
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting ...
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Black Women Are the Unsung Heroes of “Bloody Sunday” 60 Years Ago
They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.
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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 ...
Remembering Selma and finding inspiration for what we face today in Florida, U.S. | Opinion
Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...
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Remember Selma 60 years ago in today's fight for democracy | Opinion
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights. The author, inspired by the civil rights movement, volunteered in ...
When lesbians led the women’s suffrage movement
In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw ...
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Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was a Yogi: ‘She was often taking care of herself’
To protest her arrest, the Black community boycotted the Montgomery bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement ... specifically among women. British social activist Annie ...
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Commemorating 60 years of Bloody Sunday
(Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Michael Scott Milner) Among those beaten was John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who suffered a fractured skull at ...