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4 giorni fa · "Genius: MLK/X" composer Terence Blanchard on using songs and score to highlight 1960s Civil Rights leaders and their journey through the 1960s.
4 giorni fa · A new book by Larry Tye — The Jazzmen — traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement.
5 giorni fa · American civil rights movement, mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to resist racial oppression and abolish the ...
3 giorni fa · The first comprehensive history of the role of women in the civil rights movement, Freedom's Daughters fills a startling gap in both the literature of civil rights and of women's history. Stokely Carmichael, Andrew Young, John Lewis, and other well-known leaders of the civil rights movement have admitted that women often had the ideas for which men took credit.
4 giorni fa · I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. A call for equality and freedom, it became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history. March on Washington. Civil rights supporters at the ...
3 giorni fa · In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was first signed into law in 1983, officially creating a federal holiday to honor this prominent leader of the 1960s civil rights movement. Ninety-five years after King Jr. was born, the Academy Museum pays tribute to his impact and legacy with two films showcasing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
5 giorni fa · To commemorate Black History Month and share more stories with the public, CRS will also host a free webinar (register here) on Cleveland’s civil rights movement at noon on Feb. 21 with Nishani Frazier, an associate professor of history and American studies at the University of Kansas.
