Civil Rights

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July 16, 2009
In the early 1900s, vicious attacks against African Americans were almost as common in the North as in the South.
July 13, 2009
A prominent civil rights group has launched a program that lets people use their cell phones to report incidents of…
July 13, 2009
In 1957, the campus of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a battleground in the fight for school
July 4, 2009
KYLE HARVEY James Young recently made history in Philadelphia, Mississippi after defeating the incumbent Rayburn Waddell by 46 votes. On
July 3, 2009
Corey Carter could hear snippets of music in his head -- a calm and subtle melody that hadn't found its…
July 2, 2009
July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in the company of Martin Luther King Jr.
June 23, 2009
Modern day school segregation and the academic achievement gap looms as the last vestige of a nearly completed civil rights
June 22, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled narrowly in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting a
June 11, 2009
MARTHA WAGGONER Associated Press Writer DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The late historian John Hope Franklin was “an angry, happy man”