On September 20, 1919, a group of black sharecroppers who had joined the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America met with a lawyer at a church near Elaine, Arkansas, to discuss pressing their employers for a m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/08/02/The-Elaine-Massacre-and-the-Supreme-Court-Decision-that-Resulted/If you think there are a lot of protests in the Un... ...like we haven't done it before. Think back to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War protests- those were... ...otest against Britain. Since then, we've seen the Civil War, the fight for women's suffrage, labor strike... ...d safeguards from debt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/09/United-States-of-Protest-A-Citizens-Guide-to-250-Years-of-Resistance/Later this year, a new $10 bill design will be put... ...ericans weren't taught many stories about our own Civil Rights pioneers in school, much less those of Canada's....
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/08/Viola-Desmond-the-New-Face-on-the-Canadian-10-Bill/Two years before the infamous Kent State shooting,... ...years before the infamous Kent State shooting, a Civil Rights demonstration on the campus of South Carolina Sta... ...etor Harry Floyd. Despite the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination based on race,... ...a fire truck arr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/10/The-Orangeburg-Massacre/The following article is from the book Uncle John'... ...even though nearly 100 years had passed since the Civil War, the South was still a stronghold of prejudic... ...the city had become one of the epicenters of the Civil Rights movement. Pastors and activists held rallies all... ...ell was 24, a UCLA gradu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/07/24/Freedom-Ride/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi... ...one of the linchpin moments in the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. The Rosa Parks inc... ...o eventually earn the title of the "First Lady of Civil Rights ." She was eventually awarded the Presidential Med...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/07/06/The-Rest-of-the-Rosa-Parks-Story/The National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, has an exhibition called “American Stories.” A recent donation to the museum came from Minnijean Brown Trickey, who presented the Smithsonian with he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/23/A-Member-of-the-Little-Rock-Nine-Discusses-Her-Struggle-to-Attend-Central-High/Text can tell stories, but a picture is worth a th... ...lic opinion against the war. Photographs from the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950s and ‘60s served the s... ...uo;60s served the same purpose.Photographs of the civil rights struggle helped galvanize those outside the South... ...ook This Light...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/08/The-Struggle-in-Black-and-White-Activist-Photographers-Who-Fought-for-Civil-Rights/Fifty years may seem like a long time ago to an in... ...ecuted the case under an 1870 post-reconstruction civil rights law. Seven of the 18 men arrested - including the... ...KKK to the men's whereabouts - were convicted of civil rights violations, but not murder. None served more than...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/22/Mississippi-Burning-50-Years-Later/Our friends from Geeks Are Sexy are at SXSW in Aus... ...esterday. The theme of the talk was diversity and civil liberties, causes close to the Star Trek veteran&... ...n internment camp to his current support of LGBTQ rights . Diversity is a running theme in Takei’s l...
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