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From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter


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Protest expert Aldon Morris explains how social justice movements succeed
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Aldon Morris Aldon Morris is Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University and president of the American Sociological Association. His landmark books include
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Aldon Morris Aldon Morris is Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University and president of the American Sociological Association. His landmark books include
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One evening nine years ago 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking through a Florida neighborhood with candy and iced tea when a vigilante pursued him and ultimately shot him dead. The killing shocked me back to the summer of 1955, when as a six-year-old boy I heard that a teenager named Emmett Till had been lynched at Money, Miss., less than 30 miles from where I lived with my grandparents. I rememb ....

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Unheralded African-American Pioneers and Trailblazers You Should Know


(Updated: February 5, 2021)
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Whether they were involved in Civil Rights, politics, science, technology, sports, or music, African-American history is full of innovators, though they don t always get their due. Here are 25 unheralded Black pioneers and trailblazers you should know.
1. JESSE L. BROWN
When Jesse LeRoy Brown was a teenager, he wrote a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to express his disappointment that African Americans weren t flying in the military. While that changed in the Air Force in the early 40s with the Tuskegee Airmen, it would be Brown himself that would break that barrier for the Navy in 1947. By 1949 he was an officer, and in 1950, the United States was at war in Korea and he was in the action. Brown and his unit were soon airborne, completi ....

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The Power of Social Justice Movements

The Power of Social Justice Movements
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Traveling exhibits in Panama City recall 'Legacy of Rosa Parks,' other women


PANAMA CITY Two traveling exhibits focused on the Civil Rights movement will be on display at Panama City s City Hall in conjunction with Black History Month.
The Panama City Community Redevelopment Agency is hosting The Legacy of Rosa Parks” and “The Women of the Movement” from Troy (Alabama) University’s Rosa Parks Museum.
According to a release from Caitlin Lawrence, public information officer for the City of Panama City, “The Legacy of Rosa Parks” exhibit examines the story of Parks, who  like the many other African Americans in her community of Montgomery, Alabama  decided the time for change was long overdue. ....

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Argentina becomes the first large Latin American country to legalize abortion


Argentina becomes the first large Latin American country to legalize abortion
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12/30/2020
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Pro-abortion demonstrators wait for the result of a vote on December 30, 2020, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The proposal being voted on authorizes legal, voluntary, and free interruption of pregnancy until the 14th week while allowing doctor’s conscientious objection.
Argentina became the largest country in Latin America to legalize elective abortion on Wednesday after an overnight vote. The measure passed the Senate 38-29 slightly more than two years after a bill to legalize abortion failed in the upper house 38-31.
Declining support for collaboration between religion and the state, as well as the growing power of women’s rights activists, contributed to this shift. And now women in Argentina who would have gone through with abortions regardless of legality will no longer face unne ....

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