civil rights movement

  1. bruto

    A civil rights icon turns 99 today

    Going through some of my late sister's notes on her brief career as a demonstrator for civil rights, I came across a little note that after one of her many arrests, one Gloria Richardson bailed her out the next morning. Not one of the most recognized names in recent history, but Gloria...
  2. Gord_in_Toronto

    A Post for Martin Luther King Day

    Fabulous Article from March 1963 issue of Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/how-kids-dealt-with-the-stress-of-desegregation/283146/ Would the rest of the World work at least this well. :dio:
  3. N

    "Rosa Parks was a plant"

    In another thread -- post # 175 of "Michael Moore in trouble?" , over in politics -- an assertion was made that Rosa Parks was selected in advance by activists in the civil rights movement, as part of a well-planned operation, to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery Alabama bus and thus...

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