Posts Tagged ‘ civil rights ’

Shoulders We Stand On- Fannie Lou Hamer

May 8, 2009

Shoulders We Stand On is info about women who have paved the way so we can be where we are today. Who she was: In a nutshell, a prominent Civil Rights Activist. How she paved the way: Born in Montgomery Co., MS in 1917, Hamer was labeled ‘the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement.’...
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Community leaders hope Blackwell is supported at court

March 15, 2009

By Jamie Fleming

Jimmy Lee Blackwell will go to court on April 2 to “enter pleas to charges against him.” Community leaders desire that his supporters attend dressed in all black. John C. Barnette, an North Carolina-based activist who has been to rallies supporting Blackwell, says it will be a sign of black unity. He said it will...
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Civil rights fight not over yet

January 19, 2009

By Jamie Fleming

Civil rights vets: Fight not over because Obama reaches top By Eliott C. McLaughlin CNN ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Barack Obama’s inauguration marks a profound manifestation of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s dream, civil rights leaders say, but the movement would be foolish to drop its guard now. King did not fight tirelessly and...
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