Gordon Parks is best known for his portraits of Civil Rights Movement leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/20/Gordon-Parks-And-The-Long-Lost-Photos-From-His-Segregation-Series/Smithsonian has several articles on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, including an oral history and a play-by-play account of the event. Their Food and Think blog is covering another fac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/26/Food-at-the-1963-March-on-Washington/The Supreme Court this week overturned a section o... ...this week overturned a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The federal government will no longer provid... ...eracy test" in order to vote.After the end of the Civil War, would-be black voters in the South faced an... ...ample of one of these barrier...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/28/1960s-Voting-Literacy-Test/Last Sunday was the 160th anniversary of The New Y... ...day, but public demand for news updates about the Civil War caused the change in papers around the countr... ...full-page ad that described actions taken against civil rights protesters. The ad falsely accused the police for... ...d to criticize officia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/21/the-new-york-times-just-turned-160/James Zwerg was a Freedom Rider who went to Montgo... ...rican South. But although he became a hero in the Civil Rights movement, his parents never forgave him for his a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/18/the-hero-in-the-picture/During the Jim Crow era in the United States, it was neither easy nor safe for African-Americans to travel from town to town. For three decades, The Negro Motorist Green Book: An International Travel Guide was an indispe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/13/the-green-book/
