Celebrating Black History Month: How COFO helped the Mississippi civil rights movement
COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...
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On Trayvon Martin’s 30th Birthday, Black Lives Still Matter
Word In Black Activist Sybrina Fulton poses next to a collage of her son Trayvon Martin at the Manifest:Justice pop-up art ...
Maine writer and civil rights pioneer team up on new kids’ book
I Want Freedom Now!' about Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.
The meter of history: The Jerry Rescue and the struggle against slavery
Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.