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Civil Rights Movement

Sunday Open Thread: Happy Birthday Rev. Joseph Lowery

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Joseph Echols Lowery (born October 6, 1921) is a minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the American civil rights movement. He later became the third president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his immediate successor, Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, and participated in most of the major activities of the … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: Happy Birthday Rev. Joseph Lowery

Thursday Open Thread: Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement

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 Continuing on with this week's open thread theme, I turn my sights to the one of the main organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (April 17, 1912 – August 29, 1992) was a civil rights activist and educator in Montgomery, Alabama. Born near Culloden, Georgia, she was the youngest of twelve children.  She attended Fort Valley … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement