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Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman by Jennifer Scanlon is the first biography (published in 2016) of the African-American civil rights leader who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington that Dr. Martin…

July 19, 2021 | : Gloria Richardson, "an influential but largely unsung civil rights activist," died in New York City at the age of 99, reports The Associated Press. Gloria Richardson Organizing the Cambridge Movement on the east…

By Matthew Rodriguez Associate Editor of Pasadena Weekly Ön the first federal recognition process, the Altadena Historical Society celebrated the life of Ellen Garrison Clark, daughter of an escaped slave and civil rights…

By Javacia Harris BowserFor the Birmingham Times When you think of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, certain names spring to mind: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, and Rev.…

"Busse Are A Comin '" by Charles Person with Richard Rooker, 2021, St. Martin's Press, 304 pages, $ 26.99Your place has been reserved.You are excited about this trip, but also nervous. You have never been…

While the achievements of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin are anchored in the history books, the lives of the three women who made a tremendous impact on their lives - their mothers - are less well…