Civil Rights Movement

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December 18, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) - Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader and businessman who later became the first black president of…
December 17, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Civil Rights were…
November 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Long before the recent FBI probe of Gen. David Petraeus, leading to his resignation as CIA director,…
November 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - During a debate response, Independent Mike Connelly implied Rosa Park's 1955 refusal to give up her bus…
October 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Hamer, who would have been 95 on Oct. 6, is remembered the world over as a woman…
October 1, 2012
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - The black man who enrolled at the University of Mississippi 50 years ago amid violent protests…
August 21, 2012
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - A U.S. man says he has discovered the audio tape of a forgotten interview with civil…
August 10, 2012
Over 800 hours of recently released of recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal how President John F. Kennedy's…
August 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Belafonte's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement are numerous -- including financially assisting Dr. Martin Luther King,…
August 5, 2012
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were…
July 31, 2012
VIDEO - When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to sit at the back of the bus, Thelma…
July 26, 2012
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Thelma McWilliams Glass, a longtime professor and civil rights pioneer who helped organize the Montgomery bus…
July 23, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Today, 45 years later, the 1967 Riots are seen as more than four days of destruction and…
June 19, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A black ex-prison inmate has filed a lawsuit against reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen…
May 29, 2012
theGRIO Q&A - Journalist and filmmaker Sharon La Cruise has taken a seven-year journey to tell the story of Daisy…
May 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - When President Harry Truman signed an executive order on July 26, 1948, calling for the desegregation of…
May 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Black veterans, especially those who fought in World War II, served critical roles in raising national and…
May 18, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - An attorney claims a judge and two lawyers involved in a long-running dispute over civil rights pioneer…
May 16, 2012
OPINION - Bayard Rustin, who had worked with the original March in 1941, was a constant and steady force during…