Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights Movement’
Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Exhibit
Experience the powerful legacy of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer with the traveling exhibit, Risking Everything. On display at America’s Black Holocaust Museum from October 7th through November 4th, this compelling exhibit brings to life the courageous efforts of over 70,000 African Americans and more than 1,500 volunteers who fought against racial injustice and voter suppression. Through 16 panels featuring 77 historic photographs and documents, Risking Everything vividly chronicles their struggle and triumphs, engaging and inspiring audiences of all ages.
Read MoreABHM Book Club Presents: Risking Everything by Micheal Edmonds
Join us on October 24th at 6 PM via Zoom for a virtual discussion of Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader by Michael Edmonds. This anthology, featuring 44 original documents from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, offers a gripping look at the courage and struggle of activists and black Mississippians fighting against racial oppression. Discover firsthand accounts of their bravery and the harsh realities they faced, many of which are published here for the first time.
Read MoreOur Fathers Marched With M.L.K. Here’s What They Would Say to Activists Today.
The children of two of Dr. King’s alliance want to foster conversation between divided communities such as Israel and Palestine.
Read MoreRev. William Lawson, civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 95
A civil rights leader who worked to end segregation and stood by Martin Luther King even when others wouldn’t had passed.
Read MoreMalcolm X’s family to sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD for $100M over his assassination
America’s Black Holocaust Museum – Malcolm X’s family to sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD for $100M over his assassination
Read More‘I Have a Dream’ is MLK’s most radical speech — not because of what he said then, but because of how America has changed since
Dr. King spoke passionately about integration, a radical idea that has yet to be fully achieved and still disturbs some people.
Read MoreFrom the first March on Washington to today, images of Black suffering reveal America’s painful truths
A long history of the Civil Rights movement in America is documented with pride and 60 year old call to action.
Read More‘MLK/FBI’ Review: The FBI’s Clownish Surveillance Of A Civil Rights Icon Is More Relevant Than Ever
In MLK/FBI, well-known documentary filmmaker Sam Pollard brings a Martin Luther King Jr. story never before seen on-screen. Using archival footage and interviews with those close to King and the situation, his new film shows how FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover spent years targeting King and the Civil Rights Movement.
Read MoreRead Barack Obama’s Eulogy for John Lewis
Former President Barack Obama delivers an impassioned call to action while eulogizing the late Rep. John Lewis.
Read MoreSome Exhibits to Come – I Am Somebody! The Freedom Struggle
A sample list of exhibits planned for this gallery.
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