Northern Ireland’s second civil rights march, like the first, was a protest against discriminatory public housing policies that allocated houses to Protestants but not Catholics. The march ...

This month marks the 50 th anniversary of Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march. Recently, an issue has arisen about who deserves credit for forming the civil rights movement. On August 24 ...

Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march had begun. A few weeks earlier, organiser Michael McLoughin had made his way to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks – then in town’s main ...

A civil rights march in Londonderry 50 years ago "galvanised ... with the support of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). NICRA had formed in 1967, and drew inspiration from ...

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Ultimately, troops shot 26 unarmed civilians during the protest march against internment ... The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland & Black America describes King as “an enormously ...

As early as 1963, civil rights protesters in Northern ... march on the lines of the Selma-Montgomery march. Oddly, perhaps, the Northern Ireland protesters identified more with black American ...

Ivan Cooper was a Northern Ireland civil rights leader and politician in the ... During that time he played a leading role in organising the 1972 march on what came to be known as Bloody Sunday ...

One of Northern Ireland's best-known civil rights leaders, Ivan Cooper, has died aged 75. Mr Cooper was one of the leaders of the civil rights march in Londonderry in 1972 that ended in 13 people ...

Sponsor Message The violence took place during a march organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. A public investigation later concluded that British soldiers fired on the unarmed ...

A civil rights march in Londonderry 50 years ago "galvanised ... with the support of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). NICRA had formed in 1967, and drew inspiration from ...