civil rights movement
August 13, 2012 -
When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows.
March 14, 2012 -
Last week immigrant rights advocates retraced the route of the historic civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a powerful show of solidarity between African-Americans and Latinos.
March 6, 2012 -
One state lawmaker compared the police response to the peaceful protesters to Massive Resistance, the violent effort to stop integration of the state's public schools a half-century ago.
January 16, 2012 -
In the final months of his life, Dr. King launched a Poor People's Campaign for economic justice with a familiar strategy: Occupying the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
March 3, 2008 -
An excerpt of a 1981 Southern Exposure interview with civil rights organizer James Orange, who talks about how he got his nickname, the importance of freedom songs to the movement, and his later work with gangs in Chicago. Orange passed in away in February 2008 at age 65.
September 12, 2007 -
Paul Ortiz -- a professor in the community studies program at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an Institute for
May 5, 2005 -
The FBI is exhuming Emmett Till's body as part of a reopened 50-year-old murder case, evidently to prove both that the body is really his and to establish how he died. From the Clarion-Ledger:
