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Mug shots of the Freedom Riders arrested in Mississippi, including John Lewis, upper left, and Catherine Burks-Brooks, top row, third from left.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Upended car damaged and smoking after a riot protesting the Freedom Riders arrival in Montgomery, Alabama.
Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Norman Dean, Birmingham News.
Martin Luther King, Jr., with Freedom Riders as they prepare to leave Montgomery, Ala., for Jackson, Miss.
Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Norman Dean, Birmingham News.
In February 1946, Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to play in major league baseball, and his wife, Rachel, boarded a plane in Los Angeles, bound for spring training in Daytona Beach, Fla. They had first-class tickets.
Marsha R Joyner, one of the students who integrated Western High and a civil rights activist, dies
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According to our old friend David Horowitz the radical leftist turned thoughtful conservative turned Trump propagandist whom we’ve been acquainted with, in his various political guises, for more than 60 years America is on the brink of destruction by way of a communist takeover that only the patriots of the MAGA movement can prevent. That’s the main message in Horowitz’s new book,
The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America. On the book’s cover are portraits of the seven Democrats allegedly plotting the revolution: Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ilhan Omar.
From Howard Zinn s People s History of the United States
Classic Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians
Hal Ashby s Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front.
From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country and failed. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.
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Alabama’s Black Belt region named for its rich, fertile soil is home to watershed sites in the struggle for civil rights, where the great-grandsons and granddaughters of enslaved people risked their lives and changed the course of history. The area also features lush ecological diversity and a wealth of rural Southern culture, from world-renowned Gee’s Bend quilts to legendary country and blues music. Advocacy in Action
From the Motor City to the Arabia Mountains, we should invest in the cost-effective partnerships that share America’s stories and create jobs around the country
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