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4 days ago · July 2 (Reuters) - Courtland Cox was 22 years old when he stood alongside civil rights icons Bayard Rustin and John Lewis at the March on Washington in 1963, joined by thousands of other Black ...
2 days ago · Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States ' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
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8 hours ago · Biden’s Thursday appearances on Black radio shows in the critical states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were his first chances to show he could answer questions and discuss his record after a debate in which the 81-year-old repeatedly struggled to complete sentences and press his case against Republican Donald Trump.
3 days ago · The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
5 days ago · From 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington, a formerly enslaved man who had built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama into a major center of industrial training for African American youths, was the country’s dominant Black leader.
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3 hours ago · July 6, 2024 at 7:33 p.m. EDT. 0. NEW ORLEANS — The National Urban League on Saturday honored and recognized the accomplishments of four Black women who have made significant marks in the ...
