On the evening of Oct. 10, Doudna Fine Arts Center hosted Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, a concert dedicated to teaching history through songs that were prevalent during the Civil ...

The civil rights movement brought a swift, often violent response from white segregationists willing to beat, threaten, and kill. By one count during Mississippi Freedom Summer there were 80 civil ...

The government eventually settled a civil rights lawsuit stemming ... a major role in the student wing of the freedom movement. National Welfare Rights Organization The National Welfare Rights ...

CANTON, Miss. (WLBT) - The civil rights giant Flonzie Brown says having this Mississippi Freedom Trail marker in her honor is a full-circle moment for her. Not only does it highlight her works and ...

24, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Candice Henderson-Chandler poses in front of her home, also known as the Freedom House, where Civil Rights leaders in New Orleans once used as a safe house, Oct. 23 ...

Within the 20th century, Black Americans would once again turn to music as a form of protest against institutionalised racial discrimination through styles like jazz, soul, R&B and, later, disco. No ...

become the personification of nonviolence in the Civil Rights movement. Despite being beaten and arrested time and again at sit-ins in Nashville, on the Freedom Rides and elsewhere, Lewis’s ...

The National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award recognizes individuals who have made "significant contributions" within the civil rights movement. It starts with a pre-award gala at 5:30 p.m. The ...

For 33 years, the National Civil Rights Museum honors people who have made significant contributions within the civil rights movement ... to be honored at Freedom Award Attendees, public figures ...

A fiery back and forth erupted at City Hall on Thursday, with supporters of the Freedom House museum ... This is about a Civil Rights Movement celebrating tens of hundreds people that were heroes ...

After buying the home in 2021, Henderson started a nonprofit called Friends of the Freedom House, which uses the home as a museum and gathering place centered around the Black community in the city.

Sullivan, the dramatic case that grew out of segregationists' attempts to quash reporting on the civil rights movement. In its landmark 1964 decision, the Supreme Court held that a public official ...