sit-ins

July 18, 2020 - Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia), who became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement as a student and chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for several years before being elected to Congress in 1987, has died at age 80. In this 1980 interview with Lewis, he recalls the Nashville sit-ins and the deep faith he had in the Movement.  

December 7, 2017 - Young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and their supporters rallied this week in the streets and halls of Congress to call for a legislative solution to looming deportations that are deeply unpopular with the American people.

March 1, 1986 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 14 No. 2, "Water Politics." Find more from that issue here.

October 1, 1976 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 4 No.