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Bloody Sunday 1965

Four Walls @FourWalls (86778) • United States 3 May 23

One of the most important sites in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is in the photo above. It is the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River in Selma. On March 7, 1965 an organized protest march was set to leave Selma...

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Today the United States celebrates martin Luther King Day

joseph anthony yap @NatsuYeung (264) 17 Jan 22

Today the United States celebrates Martin Luther King Day Though he was mostly fighting and died for Black Americans' civil rights his belief in non-violent opposition and speeches resonate with different people not only in the...

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Did You Know?

celticeagle @celticeagle (189927) • Boise, Idaho 28 Dec 21

We all know the story of Rosa Parks, right? Well did you know that Rosa and her husband, Raymond, were civil rights activists long before Rosa became famous for her refusal to give up her seat on a city bus on December 1, 1955....

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One thing leads to another. I am watching a conference with Harry Belafonte.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 24 Mar 21

I started with his song at noon, most of which I know by heart. Now at YouTube, I found a conversation with him. It was interesting how the critic Henry Louis Gates described him "Radical before it was chic and remained so...

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speech

celticeagle @celticeagle (189927) • Boise, Idaho 20 Jan 20

King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech is owned by the King family. After he gave the speech in 1963 King obtained rights to the speech due to the speech being used in all kinds of ways and people were selling unauthorized copies....

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Trump Administration: Medical personnel cannot be forced to assist in an abortion

Gary Sibio @garysibi (702) • Chicago, Illinois 7 Sep 19

On 28 Aug 2019 the Trump administration's Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is illegal to force medical personnel to participate in an abortion when they personally oppose...

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Do you still value privacy?

Gary Sibio @garysibi (702) • Chicago, Illinois 10 Feb 19

My wife and I recently started rewatching the TV series "Person of Interest" on Netflix. If you've never seen the show, it involves a supercomputer which collects data on everyone in an attempt to stop a terrorist attack. In one...

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Remembering Rosa Parks

celticeagle @celticeagle (189927) • Boise, Idaho 24 Oct 18

On October, 24,2005 Rosa Parks died at the age of 92 in her Detroit, Michigan apartment. She is the civil rights activist that refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. This started a...

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I started the day with a movie.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 7 Dec 17

Good morning, friends. I am trying to have my feet up a part of the day so that they don´t swell so much. Watching films at Netflix is a good way to do so and not get bored. Today I watched alone a movie that I had wanted to see...

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Which USA Political Party Comes to Mind?

PsalmOneCares @everwonderwhy (7355) 20 Aug 17

The Republicans? Or Democrats Party?-- When we think about Racial Equality and Civil Rights, who do you think are America's real, good friends? Most of us would answer that the Democratic Party are the ones that fought for...

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The Year I Was Born: Part 2

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 10 Aug 17

More fascinating things that happened the year I was born: 75 years ago. 1. Producers of food stuffs, began the process of adding vitamins and minerals to milk, cereal and other foods, leading to the birth of “Wonder Bread.”...

I have found a rare book in our collection ...

anthony davis @lookatdesktop (27156) • Dallas, Texas 21 Feb 17

Inside the binding of that book is the name written by hand : Jesse Jackson. The title of that book is either Proverbs for Young People or Parables for Young People. I am not sure exactly what the title of that book is, but I...

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Donald Trump Meets Martin Luther King III

Peter Gagliardi @PeterGagliardi (132) • , Pennsylvania 17 Jan 17

Martin Luther King III displayed the greatest example of peacemaking in America that I have ever seen. The country is hopelessly divided down the middle and King agreed to meet with President Trump to break the ice, and bring...

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Civil Rights Hero, Unrepentant Racist, or Race Traitor

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 16 Jan 17

Could Lyndon B. Johnson have been all these things? It depends on who you ask. To the hardline segregationists of the south, LBJ, once one of the stalwarts of white supremacy, who fought every piece of Civil Rights legislation...

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How are you spending the Martin Luther King, Jr Holiday?

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 16 Jan 17

I am spending today at home, still fighting this cold, though I seem to be winning (knock on wood). I was thinking of seeing if I could find the movie SELMA on television and watching it today in honor of Dr. King. It seems like a...

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Short Week, Odd Day

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 13 Jan 17

Due to the icy roads and frigid conditions that closed school on Monday and Tuesday I had a very short work week this week. To cap it off, today was a very odd day at school. Our end of the 7th grade hall spent from 7:45am to...

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Racism in America

Ali Canary @AliCanary (4459) 8 Aug 16

There are plenty of instances of racial tension in this country, some extremely explosive, but overall, I think we have still come a very long way in a pretty short time. When my husband and I watched the movie The Help, I was...

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Why Did I Think A Part Time Job At McDonald's Would Work?

Bethie Annie @BethieAnnie (818) • Dayton, Ohio 30 Jul 16

I have not given up on writing, I just needed some quick cash. Sure Hubpages still sends me a check each month , but I need to pay of this used car I bough a few months ago. I took a part time night shift job at McDonalds to...

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A Brilliant man and He Paved the way

Teep11 @Teep11 (7673) • United States 26 Jul 16

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Was a brilliant man who spoke with dignity and with justice. He believed in the rights of all people. Dr. King wanted to uplift his people and wanted the ugly acts of racism to stop. His life was cut...

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Transgenders and our public schools.

Michael McCathern @omni234 (4) • Easton, Pennsylvania 13 May 16

I woke up this morning and switched on the local news like I usually in the morning to discover that public schools are now being forced to allow student to use the public restroom that fits there gender preference.They state that...

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