Governor Patterson declared martial law in

Parks, Rosa Louise

Parks, Rosa Louise, 1913–2005, American civil-rights activist, b. Tuskegee, Ala., as Rosa Louise McCauley. A seamstress and long-time activist-member of the Montgomery, Ala., chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), she sparked the Montgomery bus boycott

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Netflix series to dramatize Kaepernick’s path to activism

LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL

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Rep. Terri Sewell Supports Renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell said Monday she is in favor of renaming the Edmund Pettus bridge in her hometown of

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Nipsco names Mike Hooper as company president | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI), announced on May 2, 2020 that Mike Hooper has been named senior vice president and president of NIPSCO, responsible for delivering safe and reliable service to the nearly 1.2 million electric and natural

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African American History and Women Timeline 1960-1969

[Previous] [Next] • Ruby Bridges integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana • Ella Baker among others organized SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) at Shaw University • Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals, and was named

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Zambia

In 1972, Kaunda outlawed all opposition political parties. The world copper market collapsed in 1975. The Zambian economy was devastated—it had been the third-largest miner of copper in the world after the United States and Soviet Union. With a soaring debt and inflation rate in 1991, riots took

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Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Long a symbol of pride to some and hatred to others, the Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence 155 years after rebellious Southern states lost a war to perpetuate

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Rosa Parks

Born: 2/4/1913 Tuskegee, AlabamaDied: 10/24/2005 Detroit, MichiganRosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey

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1955

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights

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National Guard troops imposed limited martial law

National Guard troops imposed limited martial law in Cambridge, Md., after open confrontations between demonstrators and white segregationists.

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1963

Alabama legislature met

Alabama legislature (26 Blacks, 106 whites) met in Montgomery.

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1868

Benjamin Montgomery

Benjamin Montgomery was born into slavery in 1819 in Loudon County, Virginia. He was sold to Joseph E. Davis, a Mississippi planter. Davis was the older brother of Jefferson Davis who would later serve as the President of the Confederate States of America. After a period time, Davis could see great

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COMMENTARY: ENOUGH – Voice and Viewpoint

The tragic way in which George Floyd was murdered has conjured up so many past and recent memories of Black people that have fallen victim to homegrown, domestic terrorism, at the hands of members of law enforcement or those who just simply despise Black

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Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1965 to 1969

This civil rights movement timeline focuses on the struggles final years, when some activists embraced black power, and leaders no longer appealed to the federal government to end segregation, thanks to the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Although the

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1960

What do we tell our children, our students?

For the past few days, I, like many others have been viewing through the lens of the media, the reaction of our country to the deplorable and senseless death of yet another defenseless black person at the hands of a white police officer, a tragic mockery to the truth that Black Lives

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

This Pride Month, let us not forget about our Black liberation pioneers

Front row, left: Author James Baldwin, Front row, 2nd from left, Selma March strategist, Bayard Rustin,Front row, 3rd from left (with hat), A. Philip Randolph (Photo by Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty

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Johnathan Austin, former Councilor, On How City Finally Removed Confederate Statue

The outrage over the death of George Floyd —a black man killed by police in Minneapolis—has already led to change in Birmingham, said former City Council President Johnathan

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Definition of Boycott

The word boycott entered the English language because of a dispute between a man named Boycott and the Irish Land League in

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West Indian History: Biographies

West Indian History: Biographies | FactMonster

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Trump: Biden set black Americans back 'big time' with crime bill

MORE on Wednesday tore into former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenPoll: Majority 'sympathetic' to protesters, disapprove of Trump's response In a year like no other, we'll hold the election of our lifetime The Hill's Morning Report - Protesters' defiance met with calls to listen MORE over his

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Civil Rights Memorial is dedicated in Montgomery, AL, 1989

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1989

COMMENTARY: ENOUGH | Afro

The tragic way in which George Floyd was murdered has conjured up so many past and recent memories of Black people that have fallen victim to homegrown, domestic terrorism, at the hands of members of law enforcement or those who just simply despise Black

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SOS National Day of Prayer Caravan holds prayer at Governor’s Mansion

Prayers of protest leaders to Expand Medicaid, Increase Testing and Save Lives

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Cory Booker and Kamala Harris speak out against Rand Paul amendment | New York Carib News

Paul, who has been holding up popular bipartisan legislation to make lynching a federal crime, came to the Senate floor in Washington to add an amendment to the anti-lynching legislation and then pass

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Percy Julian - Birthday

Percy Julian , in full Percy Lavon Julian (born April 11, 1899, Montgomery, Alabama, U.

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Apr

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1899

'Thicka Than Peanut Buttah': Ashanti Busts Out in Green Two-Piece Fit, Fans Swoon Over Her Physique

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Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK's Famous Montgomery Speech

To see much more from the film, King: A Filmed Record, on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/i1B3S. In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs excerpts of the 1970 documentary, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a rarely seen Oscar-nominated feature about Dr. Martin Luther

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Mar

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1965

Watkins, Dr. Levi, Jr. (1944-2015)

Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. was a cardiac surgeon who, in 1980, performed the first implantation of an automatic defibrillator into a human heart. He was also a professor of cardiac surgery and associate dean at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in

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Apr

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2015

Floyd Patterson

Thomas and Annabelle Patterson’s third child, Floyd Patterson was born on January 4, 1935, in North Carolina. Consisting of 13 members, the family was financially weak and Patterson grew up to be an antisocial child who could not read or write until the age of 11. However, he improved both, inside

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Percy Julian

Dr. Percy Lavon Julian was an African American chemist who is most well known for extracting medicinal drugs from plants. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama on April 11, 1899 to James Sumner and Elizabeth Lena Julian. His grandparents had been slaves in the Civil War era and Julian grew up facing

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Apr

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1899

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