Dr. Amy K. Milligan will present the 2025 Stone Lecture in Judaism at Augustana, “Navigating History: Civil Rights and the Jews of Selma, Alabama,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, ...
Augustana College will present the Stone Lectureship in Judaism hosted by Amy K. Milligan, Ph.D., at the Olin Center ...
Back in Alabama, the Montgomery bus station where Freedom Riders were attacked in 1961 continues to serve as a pivotal stop along the nation’s Civil Rights trail, revisiting key cities where ...
"Mom was a committed civil rights leader in New York City and the nation and worked ... She was born in Montgomery, Alabama – the birthplace of the civil rights movement – then moved to ...
The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census, but the Supreme Court is still dealing with lawsuits that grew ...
With the federal law eroded by court decisions, about a half-dozen states want to enshrine protections for non-white voters. But it’s a tough sell even in Democratic states.
Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...
The experience, titled “Three Cities: One Movement” shares information about Alabama historic places throughout the Civil Rights Movement. “In this moment there’s an opportunity for us to use ...
This was one of the great lessons learned by Martin Luther King Jr. and others in the Civil Rights ... Alabama, in 1963, they spent months preparing. As he would put it in his letter from that ...
Montgomery, Alabama, the final site of a crucial march from Selma, is set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of an event that ...
The Department of Education opened investigations into dozens of universities Friday, part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to pressure the higher education world to fall in line with his ...
Just a few days after the Katz sit-in, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested, jailed and kicked by city police during a nonviolent protest in Montgomery, Alabama ... on civil rights in Oklahoma ...