/tags/civil-rights-movement civil rights movement en-US WLRN Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2024-08-02/leonard-pitts-jr-jim-crow-south-alabama-54-miles In the novel 54 Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. tells a story of generational cycles, pain, and healing during the Civil Rights Movement in the heart of Alabama. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2024-08-02/leonard-pitts-jr-jim-crow-south-alabama-54-miles Natu Tweh /arts-culture/2023-08-24/civil-rights-movement-black-life-photos-ernest-withers An exhibition at The Arc in Opa-locka provides a look into the civil rights movement and Black life in the South through the works of photojournalist Ernest C. Withers. Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:05:32 GMT /arts-culture/2023-08-24/civil-rights-movement-black-life-photos-ernest-withers Natu Tweh /arts-culture/2023-03-29/a-new-dramatic-play-depicts-tampas-civil-rights-lunch-counter-protests-in-1960 Meet Clarence Fort, organizer of the Tampa 1960 sit-ins, and Mark E. Leib, the playwright behind the new production spotlighting the events. Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2023-03-29/a-new-dramatic-play-depicts-tampas-civil-rights-lunch-counter-protests-in-1960 Jessica Meszaros /news/npr-breaking-news/2022-02-22/a-picture-of-u-s-democracy-in-action-black-people-at-work-rest-and-play A mantra for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is to explore American History through an African American lens. Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:15:00 GMT /news/npr-breaking-news/2022-02-22/a-picture-of-u-s-democracy-in-action-black-people-at-work-rest-and-play Walter Ray Watson /news/2021-07-26/bob-moses-civil-rights-leader-and-longtime-educator-dies-at-86 Moses, the architect of Freedom Summer's voting registration drive in Mississippi, also spent decades crusading against inequalities in the public school system through his math training program. Mon, 26 Jul 2021 11:02:10 GMT /news/2021-07-26/bob-moses-civil-rights-leader-and-longtime-educator-dies-at-86 Dustin Jones, Emma Bowman /news/2021-06-17/house-passes-a-bill-to-commemorate-juneteenth-as-a-federal-holiday The yes vote comes a day after the Senate unanimously moved to recognize June 19 as a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States. Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:03:27 GMT /news/2021-06-17/house-passes-a-bill-to-commemorate-juneteenth-as-a-federal-holiday Alana Wise /2020-03-28/rev-joseph-lowery-dean-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-98 Lowery got his start as an activist organizing bus boycotts in 1950s Alabama. He led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for two decades and prayed at Barack Obama's first inauguration. Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:45:00 GMT /2020-03-28/rev-joseph-lowery-dean-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-98 Debbie Elliott /show/sundial/2020-02-13/homeless-encampment-in-palm-beach-civil-rights-history-book-bike-safety-panel On this Thursday, Feb. 13, episode of Sundial:Palm Beach County Homeless Encampment Dozens of tents housing homeless people are clustered in "Tent City,"… Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:18:11 GMT /show/sundial/2020-02-13/homeless-encampment-in-palm-beach-civil-rights-history-book-bike-safety-panel /2020-01-20/just-mercy-attorney-asks-u-s-to-reckon-with-its-racist-past-and-present Bryan Stevenson built a museum and monument in Alabama dedicated to slavery and its legacy. "We need to create institutions in this country that motivate more people to say 'Never again,' " he says. Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:00:20 GMT /2020-01-20/just-mercy-attorney-asks-u-s-to-reckon-with-its-racist-past-and-present Terry Gross /2020-01-17/rep-john-lewis-fight-for-civil-rights-began-with-a-letter-to-martin-luther-king-jr As a teenager growing up in Alabama, Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. during a budding civil rights movement. In a letter back, King invited the 18-year-old to join the cause. Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:07:20 GMT /2020-01-17/rep-john-lewis-fight-for-civil-rights-began-with-a-letter-to-martin-luther-king-jr Emma Bowman, Kerrie Hillman, Aisha Turner