In this new era of Jane Crow, the right to choose is not only a question of bodily autonomy in life, but even in death.

While African American troops were helping to end World War II overseas, their counterparts here at home were leading the ...

The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update. Sung in ...

Born in Georgia to civil rights activist parents ... My father was president of the Albany Movement. He was very close friends with Malcolm X. They traveled together. The impact that my parents ...

Ambassador Young has a distinguished career as a civil rights leader ... weeks for training students to register voters in Albany, Georgia, according to Atlanta News First. Here are some ...

The Albany city councilor joined a crowd around ... morning and hoisted a clear plastic bottle in honor of Civil Rights Movement leader Calvin Henry. “Activism is not one-size-fits all ...

Lectures examining the Civil Rights Movement from Brown v ... 1961 Council of Federated Organizations, 1962 The Albany Movement, 1961-1967 The March on Washington, 1963 The Birmingham Campaign, ...

An Albany historian, Clennon King, is pushing for the Carnegie Library to change its name to honor Civil Rights activist ... about the Albany Movement, Albany, Georgia. And so, we need to start ...

ALBANY, Georgia (Albany ... of a 12-year-old civil rights “foot soldier.” Albany native Gwendolyn Crawford, now 74, became an iconic image of the 1961-62 Albany Movement after she and others ...