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60 years after Bloody Sunday, legacy of martyrs guides fight for voting rights
Sixty years ago today, hundreds of ordinary Americans came together for one of the most historic protests in this nation’s history. They met in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge with an inflexible mission: to get the Voting Rights Act (VRA) passed and enshrine Black people’s right…
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Beyond Bloody Sunday’s 60th anniversary: Be a foot soldier for our future rights
Black Alabamians in Selma stiffened their spines and marched resolutely across the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago today. The brave foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement knew the risks that lay ahead of them. They marched anyway, propelled by their belief that, in a democracy, all people must be afforded the right to…
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60 years after Bloody Sunday, foot soldiers address current threats to democracy
If she hadn’t been Black, Lynda Blackmon Lowery’s mother would have lived. That’s what a then-7-year-old Lowery heard from the adults around her on Sept. 19, 1957. “That was the day I found out what hate really was,” Lowery said. Her mother had experienced complications during the birth of one of Lowery’s younger siblings, and…
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Trump advances anti-immigrant priorities with national language executive order
President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 1 declaring English as the official language of the United States, showing a commitment by his administration to enact xenophobic policies championed by anti-immigrant groups and white nationalist figures. The executive order rolls back a 25-year-old mandate requiring organizations that receive federal funding to provide language translation…
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Bigoted beliefs, racist ties found among some of President Trump’s appointees
As President Donald Trump has made clear in the first month of his second term, one of the major goals of his administration is to reinscribe the hierarchies of race and gender. The result would be to, once again, privilege those who are white and male in a country that has spent decades moving, if…
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Books on protest movements of the civil rights era for adults and children
Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass protest movements led to women’s suffrage, the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s and the end of the Vietnam War. This list includes groundbreaking nonfiction books for adults and thought-provoking books for young readers…
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Ku Klux Klan flyers are last cries of a dying organization in Kentucky
A small and struggling faction of the Ku Klux Klan in Kentucky is latching onto talk of mass deportations by conservative elected officials to distribute racist propaganda, sow fear in communities and gain media attention. The Klan faction known as the Trinity White Knights (TWK), which is led by William Bader, has distributed racist flyers…
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