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How Children Transformed America

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Boycott, Bomb, Children, Civil Rights, Birmingham Childrens Crusade, Birmingham, Freedom Schools, March, Fred Shuttlesworth, Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, Bull Connor, Children?S Defense Fund Freedom Schools, Jim Crow, Addie Mae Collins, Martin Luther King, Carole Robertson, Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Cynthia Wesley, 16th Street Baptist Church, Denise McNair, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

On this 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Children's Crusade it is a time to remember, honor, and follow the example of the children who were frontline soldiers and transforming catalysts in America's greatest moral movement of the 20th century.

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House OKs Honoring Birmingham Church Bombing Victims

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 04.25.2013 | Black Voices
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WASHINGTON -- Four young victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing that marked one of the darkest moments of the civil rights movement are one step c...

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Unseating Invisible Racism

Rev. Otis Moss III | Posted 11.08.2012 | Religion
Read More: Voter ID Laws, Empty Chair, Religion and Politics, Video, 16th Street Baptist Church, Slidepollajax, Civil Rights, Race Relations, Religion News
Rev. Otis Moss III

In this day of the viral "empty chair," the church community and the interfaith community must speak to the "empty chair" and what it represents -- the invisible racism and voter suppression in America.

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Songs Of Tolerance In The Soundtrack Of My Life

Ellen Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Ellen Sterling

I was raised on tolerance and to this day believe in the lyric, "You've got to be taught to be afraid of people whose eyes are oddly made and people whose skin is a different shade"

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