Topic: Medgar Evers
Optional soundtrack to this blog post....) . . I am a child of the civil-rights movement. I did not know I was one for a very long time, and I am...
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On a cold, wind-swept day at Icahn Stadium back in April, Thomas Jefferson boys track coach Claudel Martin watched his team compete in the PSAL Day...
Cardozo and Medgar Evers may enjoy the national spotlight, but Dewitt Clinton is looking to build on its strong indoor season and make the...
Scholars, writers and Caribbean literature enthusiasts are gearing up for a major event - the inaugural "Caribbean Women Writers Conference," on...
It was the youngest players who gave one of the PSAL's youngest teams an opportunity to play for the Class-B boys championship.. . Second-seeded...
Medgar Evers was an African-American social activist and field secretary for the NAACP . Evers's story has been immortalized in several movies, including the film Ghosts of Mississippi starring Alec Baldwin , Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods . Evers was born on July 2 ...
Today, February 5 is the 36th day of the year on the Gregorian Calendar . On this day in in 1994 white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in the murder of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers , more than 30 years ...
The Civil Rights Movement was a series of efforts to achieve equal recognition and standing for African-American people in the United States . After 1968, the Civil Rights Movement continued with milestones, such as the election of Maynard Jackson, the first Black mayor ...
During the early 1900s, Negroes battled for civil rights in America's post-Reconstruction era. To combat white racism and Klu Klux Klan terror, black intellectuals formed the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). As the Civil Rights movement fought ...
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