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A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

>> the city is trying all different ways to break the boycott. there are all kinds of violence, people are throwing things, including cops. like here in, they are slashing peoples tires, a lot of high-profile leaders, martin luther king, e.d. nixon from the naacp, their houses are bombed. >> people do not appreciate the kind of violence that people endured and how people would put on their sunday best and go places knowing that they were going to get beaten and bloodied and battered when they got there. >> fred gray decided to file a proactive case into federal court to start a another legal f...

Use my case as a test case against segregation. i'd worked on enough cases to know than ruling could not be made without a plaintiff. and so i agreed to be the plaintiff. >> she calls a young, 25-year-old lawyer named fred gray, who she knew and had become friends with in the ncaa he, to ask him to represent her. all day, with a cold all the officers of the three chapters and i told them that rosa parks had been arrested and should be tried. they said that you have the plans, put them into operation. i did not go to bed that night, i -- iran all 35,000 copies and i distributed them. we had wor...

As a comic, writer and actor in TV and film, Cocoa Brown’s life is full of stories. But some of the best — or worst — are from her childhood.

Starting Dec. 1, the city will host several days of events honoring civil rights heroes and efforts against racism.