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Political leaders remember civil rights advocate Hazel Dukes
Mourners filled the Mother A.M.E. Zion Church in Harlem to remember the life of Hazel Nell Dukes, a longtime civil rights leader ... “Her career as a Black woman with all that she did is ...
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Mississippi has rich Black history. See Civil Rights sites, where blues music was born
Black History Month is a time to honor the contributions and culture of Black Americans. Many museums and historic sites in Mississippi are dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement. The Mississippi ...
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Grandsons of Houston civil rights leaders unite to share family legacy and research insights
Grandsons of Houston civil rights leaders, Carlton Houston and Leon Richardson, unite at Rice University to share their family legacy. They discuss their grandfathers' roles in advancing the African ...
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60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ leaders say voting rights and racial equality have declined
Civil rights ... of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, marking a pivotal turning point for racial equality in the United States. However, six decades later, Black leaders are grappling with the ...
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Should Malcolm X have public statues? What new poll finds 60 years after assassination
Here’s what Americans said in a new poll, which comes on the 60th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s death ... A majority of Black respondents, 61%, also said they supported public ...
The Washington Post8d
At Selma’s civil rights anniversary, fears rise about the way forward
Someday,” Warnock said. Warnock spoke from the same place where civil rights leaders held their first mass meeting to encourage Black residents to register to vote in 1963 and where activists ...
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City of Albany remembers one of city’s most influential civil rights leader
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - We can’t celebrate Black History Month in Albany without remembering one of the city’s most influential civil rights leaders. Johnnie Johnson Jr. was employed by Albany ...
Hazel Dukes, lifelong New York civil rights advocate and NAACP leader, dies at 92
Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate, died Saturday at ...
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Lifelong New York civil rights leader dies
Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate ... of NAACP leaders. Dukes helped lay the foundation for Black women to ascend to the ...
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Hazel Dukes, lifelong New York civil rights advocate and NAACP leader, dies at 92
Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate ... of NAACP leaders. Dukes helped lay the foundation for Black women to ascend to the ...
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How a central Illinois reverend helped shape American civil and voting rights
The Rev. C.T. Vivian was a renowned civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin ... The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian.