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Civil Rights Leaders

Transcending Buchenwald

Jeanne Bishop | Posted 04.03.2013 | Religion
Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Holocaust Survivors, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Leaders, Dachau Concentration Camp, Concentration Camps, World War II, Jewish Social Justice, Holocaust, Judaism, Religion News
Jeanne Bishop

Hank Schwab, German Jew turned civil rights activist, died on March 28, 2013. He was 98 years old. He had outlasted Hitler by almost 68 years. Thanks be to God.

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When My 8-Year-Old Gay Son Taught His Class About Harvey Milk

Amelia | Posted 05.05.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Gay History, Gay Rights, Parenting Gay Kids, Lgbt History in School, LGBT Rights, Gay Kids, Parenting, Lgbt History, Parenting Gay Children, Gay in School, Harvey Milk, Civil Rights, Gay History in School, Gay History in Schools, LGBT History in Schools, Civil Rights Leaders, Gay Voices News
Amelia

On this day in a second-grade classroom in the Midwest, Harvey Milk was on the same stage as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as an 8-year-old gay boy who has never seen the need for a closet told Milk's story.

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Civil Rights Leader Dies At 86

AP | PHILLIP LUCAS | Posted 02.16.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Jesse Hill Jr. Dies, Civil Rights Leaders, Jesse Hill Jr. Dead, Civil Rights, Jesse Hill Jr. Civil Rights Leader Jesse Hill Jr., Black Voices News

ATLANTA — Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader and businessman who later became the first black president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, d...

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Trymaine Lee

Rev. Jesse Jackson Celebrates Birthday By Springing American Captives From Gambian Prison

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 10.08.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Yahya Jammeh, Hostages Gambia, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Movement, International Diplomacy, Gambia, Civil Rights Leaders, Gambian President, Black Voices News

Depending on who's telling it, the Rev. Jesse Jackson is either a civil rights icon and trailblazer or a self-serving opportunist and attention-monger...

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Attorney: Judge And Lawyers Conspired To Drain Rosa Parks' Estate

AP | Posted 05.18.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Detroit Crime, Video, Detroit Corruption, Rosa Parks Estate, Civil Rights Leaders, Parks Institute, Rosa Parks, Judge Freddie Burton, Civil Rights, Detroit News

DETROIT -- An attorney claims a judge and two lawyers involved in a long-running dispute over civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' estate conspired to dra...

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Bringing the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement Into 21st Century Classrooms

Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Posted 06.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Black History, Civil Rights Movement, African-American History, African Americans, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Segregation, American History, Civil Rights Leaders, Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, Rosa Parks, South Africa, Home News
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

How do we encourage young people at home and abroad, in South Africa and now those young people heavily invested in the as yet unsettled Arab Spring, to "keep on keepin' on," as the footsoldiers of the Civil Rights Movement used to pledge?

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Black Women Make History Too -- An Interview On Coretta Scott King

Martha Burk | Posted 04.13.2012 | Politics
Read More: Peace Movement, Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Martin Luther King, Mlk, King Memorial, Black History, Coretta Scott King, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Black History Month, Black Women, Coretta Scott King Interview, Civil Rights Leaders, Politics News
Martha Burk

Before her death in 2006, in preparation for a new biography, Coretta King met many times with Dr. Barbara Reynolds, one of the founding editors of USA Today. I recently interviewed Dr. Reynolds on her time with Mrs. King.

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Farewell to Dorothy Height

Zondra Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Dorothy Height, Civil Rights Movement, Civil Rights Leaders, Dorothy Height Dead, National Council of Negro Women, March on Washington, Dorothy Height Dies, Civil Rights, Chicago News
Zondra Hughes

Generally speaking, when an African American historical figure passes away, my somewhat younger Hispanic male colleague gives me that look, somewhere between clueless and concerned.

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Lots of Cooks Prepared the Compton Cookout Racial Insult Stew

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Black Males, Black Women, Ucsd, Compton Cookout, Civil Rights Leaders, Ghettos, Racism, Rappers, Racial Stereotypes, Compton, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Black and minority California lawmakers are leaping over each other to lambaste the now infamous Compton Cookout at UCSD as racially insulting, insensitive, and demeaning.

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Civil Rights Leaders Reflect On Obama, Dr King's March On Washington

ABC News | JENNIFER PARKER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Martin Luther King March on Washington, Martin Luther King Day, Civil Rights Leaders, Civil Rights Leaders Martin Luther King Day, Politics News

Many civil rights leaders and prominent African-American activists who came to Washington, D.C., almost 46 years ago for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Mar...

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