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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland: More Than An Ally
March 30, 2020 |
At an early age, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland realized that she needed to be an agent for change and fight for racial equality. As a student at Duke University in 1960, Joan began her life…
Eleanor Roosevelt: More Than A First Lady
March 26, 2020 |
Eleanor Roosevelt, born into New York’s aristocracy, became an advocate for justice after working in tenements as a young woman, and guiding America through the Great Depression and World War…
Letter From Birmingham Jail
March 25, 2020 |
Letter from A Birmingham Jail: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University. On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and many others were…
Freedom Summer—Mississippi Voting
March 25, 2020 |
Simmons – Mississipi Voting-HDV 1080i60 from NCCHR on Vimeo. Of course, in the state of Mississippi for the most part, African American people could not register to vote. There were…
Freedom Riders
March 25, 2020 |
Even though federal courts in 1960 had outlawed segregation on interstate travel, many Southern states simply ignored the rulings. A band of young men and women, many of them trained…
Dr. Denis Mukwege
March 25, 2020 |
In 2018, Dr. Mukwege won the Nobel Peace Prize with Nadia Murad for “their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict” His consistent…
Freddy Mutanguha
March 25, 2020 |
Freddy Mutanguha is the executive director for the Ageis Trust, an organization whose mission is the prevention of genocide through education. In this capacity, he runs the Kiagali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda. Mutanguha survived the…
Sit-In: Supplementary Materials
March 24, 2020 |
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down | Supplementary Materials It was February 1, 1960. They didn’t need menus. Their order was simple. A doughnut and coffee with…
Freedom Summer—Missing Workers
March 23, 2020 |
Frustrated by the continued intimidation and violence leveled against African Americans attempting to vote in Mississippi, and by the lack of federal intervention, civil rights organizers developed a new strategy…
Mamie Till: More Than A Mother
March 20, 2020 |
In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley tragically became an agent of change when her 13-year old son, Emmett, was murdered while visiting family in Mississippi. Till-Mobley’s decision to show her son’s brutalized…