When the horse-drawn wagon carrying the body of Rep. John Lewis began to make its way up the Edmund Pettus Bridge, it felt like there was a stirring of the ancestors, those in that “great cloud of witnesses” whose spirits are ever with us and who were with a young John Lewis the day police officers nearly killed him for daring to march across the bridge as part of the work to get black people ...
January 20, 2014Nearly 50 years after his death it is King's words and deeds that live on in the American memory -- not that of the racists who hated him or the Black Power advocates who scorned him.
July 25, 2013Learn about fifteen important events in the 1950s and 1960s that changed the course of the fight for racial equality in America.
July 25, 2013Words of wisdom from Nelson Mandela, Maidred Maguire, John Lewis, Tim DeChristopher, Grace Lee Boggs and James Cone.
