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• in TV
  Soundtrack for a Revolution Comes to PBS, May 9
  The story of the American Civil Rights Movement told through its powerful music: SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION.
  by missbobetier / on May 5, 2011
• in Politics
  Behind the Dream:The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly
  MLK and JFK both had to deal with questions over who actually wrote their speeches.
  by fcetier / on Feb 6, 2011
• in Film
  Soundtrack for a Revolution Examines the Role of Music in the Civil Rights Movement
  “We ain’t gonna let nobody turn us around. “ --Martin Luther King, Jr.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 13, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “civil rights movement”

 

• We The People

  
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  Americans  will be grappling with a number of sensitive and critical issues throughout 2013 and beyond.  Some new, some old and some never-ending – concerns about race, religion, violence, politics, guns,  climate change , war and  civic responsibility  are just some of the issues that may polarize all or ...
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• Letter from a Hong Kong hotel suite

  
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  Cross-posted on The Obama Diary . America’s history is written in blood and sacrifice. We have two holidays—Memorial Day and Veterans Day—which commemorate the sacrifices made by our military. But, we have only two national martyrs whom we acknowledge with holidays: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, ...
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• Tip-Off for 6/12/13 (featuring Medgar Evers) Ambush at The Alamo: Spurs embarrass Heat 113-77 to take 2-1 lead

  
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  (Kens 5) Danny Green and Gary Neal tag-teamed the Heat to give the Spurs a 2-1 lead. The San Antonio Spurs outscored the Miami Heat 63-33 in an explosive second half. Guards Danny Green and Gary Neal combined for 51 points as the Spurs set an NBA Finals record with 16 three-pointers in their 113-77 shocker over ...
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• 50th Anniversary Of Medgar Evers Assassination

  
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  It didnt take long for reaction to come from the Southern segregationists and Klan terrorists to come in reaction to President Kennedys civil rights speech the previous night 50 years ago today civil rights leader and NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers was shot and killed in the driveway of his Jackson, MS home ...
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• “Heritage, Not Hate”? Ask Medgar Evers

  
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  On this day in 1963 Medgar Evers was assassinated. His murderer, Byron De La Beckwith, is shown here in front of his Mississippi home in 1990. Click here for some incredible photographs of Medgar Evers on the civil rights trail and following his death. As for this photograph, it should give you some idea as [...]
  6 days ago

• 50th Anniversary of JFKs Civil Rights Speech

  
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  President John F. Kennedy on this night 50 years ago addressed the nation on African-American civil rights issues.   While we have come a long way since June 11, 1963, we still have a long way to go. We have far too many people (including a few Supreme Court justices) in this country that think the progress we ...
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• University of Alabama marks 50th anniversary of George Wallace...

  
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  University of Alabama marks 50th anniversary of George Wallace ‘Stand’ U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, second right, faces Ala. Gov. George Wallace as he tries to keep blacks out of the University of Alabama. AP file photos FILE - In this June 11, 1963 file photo, U.S. Deputy Attorney General ...
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• ‘Lewd & Lascivious’ Documentary Brings Infamous 1960s LGBTQ Skirmish to the Big Screen for the First Time at Frameline 2013

  
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  SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Who would have guessed that the dawn of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement in San Francisco was jump-started by straight ministers at a dance? This little-known, yet pivotal event happened the first day of 1965, and it was an occasion like never before. For the ...
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• Why I joined Moral Monday

  
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  North Carolina leaders are dismissing demonstrations that have brought thousands to Raleigh and resulted in more than 300 arrests for peaceful civil disobedience. But the concerns that are fueling the Moral Monday movement wont go away anytime soon. read more
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• Paying tribute to Medgar Evers

  
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  ARLINGTON, Va. — Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of the slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, said her husband was a man who saw a job that needed to be done, and he answered the call, “not just for his people but for all people.” Ms. Evers-Williams and a group of about 300 visitors, including Attorney ...
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• Dick J. Reavis : Diverse Moral Monday Movement Captures Imagination in North Carolina

  
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  Demonstrator being arrested during a protest at the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., Monday, May 6, 2013. Photo by Gerry Broome / AP.Moral Monday:Diverse NAACP-led movement achieves mass in North Carolina“When I got to an A.M.E. [African Methodist-Episcopal] church for a meeting called by the NAACP and saw ...
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• Remembering Will Campbell

  
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  As a seminary student in the South in the early 1980s, I found  Brother to a Dragonfly —Will Campbell’s moving memoir—as transforming as Barth or Tillich; Stringfellow or Reuther. There is a section in the book where Campbell,  who died this week , realizes in a sort of “second conversion” that Jesus ...
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• Open letter from Alice Walker to Alicia Keys

  
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  AliceWalker.jpg by Alice Walker The African American writer Alice Walker is urging songstress Alicia Keys to act in the spirit of her own people’s history of social action, and cancel a scheduled concert in Israel. “We changed our country fundamentally,” said Walker, “and the ...
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• You Will Not Make Me Choose Between My Race And My Homosexuality

  
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  Like many people looking to advance equality I too was frustrated with the events of Illinois’ leaders not having enough votes to pass a resolution allowing same sex couples to marry. I’ve expressed before how it felt that the members of the House seemed to be tiptoeing around the situation instead of making a ...
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• Why can’t press get religion, when covering black churches?

  
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  Let’s face it. The mainstream press really struggles when trying to cover life in African-American churches. On one level, black churches are treated like giant political institutions that — in a city like Baltimore — speak for a crucial segment of the voting public. There is some truth in that view. Any student ...
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• Forest Whitaker In Talks to Play MLK in ‘Memphis’

  
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  Forest Whitaker attending the Closing Ceremony and ‘Zulu’ screening during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. (May 26, 2013 *Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to play Martin Luther King in director Paul Greengrass’ MLK biopic “Memphis,” according to TheWrap.com. The film will follow Dr. ...
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• Rev. Dr. Harold A. Carter, prominent Baltimore pastor, dies of cancer

  
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  The senior pastor at Baltimore’s New Shiloh Baptist Church died on Thursday. Rev. Dr. Harold A. Carter, 76, died Thursday morning after battling cancer. Carter came to Charm City in 1965 to begin serving as the pastor at the church. During the Civil Rights Movement, Carter traveled with Dr. Martin Luther King ...
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• Martin Luther King, Jr. Almost Didn’t Give the “I Have A Dream” Speech

  
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  A few weeks ago, I happened to be visiting the Lincoln Memorial — again . While I still live in DC, it seems prudent to take advantage of this opportunity that many Americans (and non-Americans!) only get when they’re on vacation. Anyway, while at the Memorial, I happened to stop and listen to a tour guide who ...
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• Civil Rights Pioneer Receives Diploma After 54 Years

  
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  Few are taught about Olivia Ferguson McQueen during Black History Month, but she is a Civil Rights Movement pioneer. The Virginia-native successfully sued the Charlottesville City School district in 1958 at the age of 16. McQueen wanted to integrate local schools in order to attend Lane High School. She succeeded in ...
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• I thought these days were behind us -- Rev. Tyson

  
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  From North Carolina to the streets of Chicago -- they are not behind us They Canceled Class Today — All The Teachers Got Arrested While Protesting For Voting Rights From the Sun-Times : A group of parents — backed by the Chicago Teachers Union — wants Judge John Z. Lee to delay the closures ...
  3 weeks ago

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