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 ...
Quincy Jones' music holds a special place in the hearts of millions. But, his Civil Rights involvement made him an undeniable historical figure. In the way of his death, Xernona Clayton-Brady sat down ...
The Klan's activities increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked and killed both Black and ...
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 ...
23 2024. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith) FILE - Family home of civil rights movement leader Oretha Castle Haley, on 917-919 North Tonti Street in New Orleans, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Chris Granger/The Times ...
The statement did not say where he died. Britain’s civil rights movement of the 1960s is less well known, and had less impact, than the epochal struggles in the American South that produced ...
Immigrants rights groups were joined by faith and labor organizations at a downtown Los Angeles protest against the looming ...
was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the museum features multimedia presentations on the civil rights movement. With the help of 260 artifacts, more than 40 films, oral histories, interactive media ...
The Disability Rights Movement, organized in the 1970s, has been similar to other movements in important ways. Attitudes ...
A former West Virginia correctional officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who died less than a day after being booked into a jail The Latest As ...
The record producer and co-founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun, called it, “a declaration of war… the beginning of the civil-rights movement.” Until the late 30s, music hadn’t ...