Civil Rights Movement

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June 25, 2013

Supreme Court voids key part of Voting Rights Act

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June 18, 2013

Clarence Thomas makes rare break with Scalia — a sign of things to come?

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June 17, 2013

Trayvon Martin case haunted by Emmett Till tragedy

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June 16, 2013

Myrlie Evers-Williams: NAACP apologized for denying security detail for Medgar

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June 13, 2013

History of black surveillance influences African-American attitudes on spying

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June 12, 2013

George Wallace's 'stand in the schoolhouse door,' 50 years later

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June 11, 2013

JFK's historic civil rights speech revisited 50 years later

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June 6, 2013

Eric Holder praises slain black activist Medgar Evers

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June 6, 2013

Forest Whitaker reportedly in talks to play Martin Luther King Jr.

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June 5, 2013

President Barack Obama meets with Myrlie Evers at White House

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May 28, 2013

Civil rights pioneer Olivia Ferguson McQueen awarded high school diploma 54 years late

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May 24, 2013

Obama signs bill awarding 1963 Birmingham bombing victims Congressional Gold Medal

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May 21, 2013

Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation ‘eat-in’

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May 18, 2013

Glenn Beck: NAACP ‘a joke’, Tea Partiers like ‘white lynching victims’

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April 26, 2013

'4 Little Girls' from deadly 1963 Birmingham bombing may receive Congressional Gold Medals

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April 16, 2013

'Letter from Birmingham Jail' at 50: MLK's religious fervor remembered

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April 12, 2013

Medgar Evers to be remembered 50 years after death

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April 10, 2013

Survivor of ’63 Alabama church bombing seeks funds

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March 25, 2013

Cosby ties education to remembrances of the civil rights movement

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March 22, 2013

'Sapphires' film spotlights Australian girl group who channeled US civil rights movement

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