Civil Rights Movement

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August 24, 2011
From TheGRIO - Texas Gov. Rick Perry will attend a retreat with a controversial evangelical "historian" who doubts Martin Luther…
August 24, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - With Lewis leaning on his shovel, and Jackson and Young leaning on each other, they wept for…
August 24, 2011
OPINION - Our ancestors were beaten, maimed and killed during slavery, when it was illegal to teach a slave to…
August 24, 2011
OPINION - To compare the noble goals of the civil rights movement to the nefarious political strategies of GOP hacks…
August 23, 2011
SLIDESHOW - The public got its first glimpse of the Martin Luther king Jr. memorial on Monday...
August 23, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The road to this weekend's dedication, however, has run through hurdles of all kinds -- not unlike…
August 1, 2011
MONEY, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is providing $152,000 to restore a gas station as…
July 19, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The African American Civil War Museum in Washington is celebrating its grand reopening in a new, larger…
July 1, 2011
SLIDESHOW - With the upcoming celebration of Independence Day, there are activists who paved the way for our independence as…
June 12, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - She had been an active member of the board of directors for the Atlanta-based King Center since…
June 10, 2011
Despite the fact that the X-Men's story is based on the Civil Rights movement, racism and discrimination, there is no…
June 10, 2011
OPINION - When the Civil Rights Movement needed a soundtrack, it supplemented the hallowing sounds of gospel music to deliver…
June 9, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma civil rights icon Clara Luper, who led sit-ins at drug store lunch counters in Oklahoma,…
May 26, 2011
OPINION - What must it have been like to board segregated buses 50 years ago, when indignities and insults were…
May 25, 2011
OPINION - If young people were willing to risk their lives 50 years ago for the cause of equal rights,…
May 20, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station…
May 12, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - It was Jackie Robinson's non-violent reaction to the hatred, boos, racist taunts and threatening letters that predated…
May 9, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to…
May 4, 2011
SLIDESHOW - This week marks the start of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights Freedom Riders, who traveled by…
May 4, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - This month, students will retrace the Freedom Rides. Also, PBS will premiere a new documentary on the…