Adrian Sainz, The Washington Post Former sanitation worker Baxter Leach, 78, also did mechanic work and picked cotton to help make ends meet. Yalonda M. James / The Commercial Appeal. Featured Image [dropcap]Baxter[/dropcap] Leach, a prominent member of the Memphis sanitation workers union whose historic strike drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the […]
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J. Edgar Hoover saw Dick Gregory as a threat. So he schemed to have the Mafia ‘neutralize’ the comic. | Washington Post
Kyle Swenson, Washington Post [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the middle of the hothouse atmosphere of the 1968 U.S. presidential election — racial strife splitting cities, antiwar protests on college campuses, segregationist George Wallace growling up out of the South — Dick Gregory barnstormed the country, pitching audiences his acid mix of jokes and politics. The African American comic […]
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Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by a deranged woman. At 29, he almost died. | The Washington Post
He described the attack a decade later in his last sermon, which he delivered the night before his assassination.
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50 Years After His Assassination, We Are No Closer to Realizing MLK’s Most Radical Dream | New York
Whether we have made any progress toward realizing King’s more radical dream — the one he was chasing at the time of his death — is far less clear.
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Fannie Lou Hamer | American Experience
“…She understood that the fight for economic security was a crucial component of the Civil Rights movement.”
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The Greenwood Food Blockade | Southern Foodways Alliance
The White Citizens’ Council, SNCC, and the politics of food access
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Deacons for Defense provided protection when no one else would | USA Today
Robert Hicks, Charles Sims and A.Z. Young started the first affiliate chapter in Bogalusa. The group’s intense confrontations with the Klan in Bogalusa was pivotal in forcing the federal government’s involvement on the behalf of the local African-American community.
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The Rev. Avery Alexander, a tireless warrior for justice: 1 of 300 | NOLA.com
Two photos, taken 30 years apart, illustrate the Rev. Avery Alexander’s indefatigable fight against racism and injustice.
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[VIDEO] Preview: ‘I AM A MAN’ Puts You at the Heart of the Civil Rights Struggle | Road To VR
I AM A MAN is an upcoming interactive VR experience that lets you participate in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination.
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End the isolation of Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) | San Francisco Bay View
Open Letter to the Bureau of Prisons and State of Georgia by Concerned Academics
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