Civil Rights Era

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July 22, 2023
Legendary crooner Tony Bennett, who passed away at 96 on Friday, used his platform as a prominent white entertainer to…
January 18, 2023
Herbert Young was 25 in 1961 when he bused Freedom Riders through Alabama’s capital city where an angry mob confronted…
November 27, 2020
Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides" of 1961, died Monday. He…
March 28, 2020
Lowery died Friday at home in Atlanta, surrounded by family members. He died from natural causes unrelated to the coronavirus…
September 19, 2017
In 1965, Alberta Jones was brutally beaten and thrown into the Ohio River to drown. She was 34 years old.
April 14, 2017
Urana McCauley, the niece of Rosa Parks, says that it's ridiculous to draw comparisons between her aunt and United Airlines…
December 26, 2016
President Barack Obama signed the "Emmett Till Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act" to investigate and prosecute criminal civil rights violations.
October 13, 2016
On Wednesday, Jack Greenberg, a civil rights icon who effectively fought for civil rights before the United States Supreme Court,…
March 7, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) said on Friday that Loretta Lynch’s nomination for the position of Attorney General…
March 1, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Those of us who were not yet born are mostly familiar with that era via history books,…