She Took Justice
Author and civil rights attorney Gloria Browne-Marshall discussed the impact of the justice system on African American women’s quest for equal treatment. This program was held by the Nationa…
215 viewsAuthor and civil rights attorney Gloria Browne-Marshall discussed the impact of the justice system on African American women’s quest for equal treatment. This program was held by the Nationa…
215 viewsHistorian Taylor Branch, author of a trilogy of books on the civil rights era, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, spoke about the li…
1,760 viewsAlice Marie Johnson discussed her time in prison and President Trump’s commutation of her sentence in 2018.
556 viewsAn outdoor service from Memphis commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The ceremony at the National Civil Rights Museum’s plaza in front of the preserv…
4,552 viewsOn the 50th anniversary commemorating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., past and present civil rights leaders that included Representative John Lewis (D-GA), Marian Wright Ede…
1,445 viewsTavis Smiley talked about his book, Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year, in which he focuses on the final year of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life. The t…
760 viewsIn May 2011, historian Richard Norton Smith led a 10-day bus tour from Asheville, North Carolina to Austin, Texas. The group stopped at several presidential and historic sites along the rout…
6,110 viewsSana Butler talked about and from Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves (The Lyons Press; January 23, 2009). In the book she presents the story of a quest to find the …
1,092 viewsDavid Blight talked about his book A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, published by Harcourt. He spoke briefly about the history…
889 viewsPresident Bush, Prime Minister Koizumi, and first lady Laura Bush visited Graceland, the home of the late entertainer Elvis Presley, in Memphis, Tennessee. They were shown being welcomed to …
4,798 viewsRandall Robinson talked about his book The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, published by Dutton. In the book, the author argued that the United States should compensate blacks for slavery …
1,980 viewsParticipants discussed the impact of the Voting Rights Act on minority participation in the political system. They focused on a variety of issues, including recent court cases concerning ger…
131 viewsParticipants discussed the impact of the Voting Rights Act on minority participation in the political system. They focused on a variety of issues, including recent court cases concerning ger…
140 viewsThe National Civil Rights Museum awarded Dorothy Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women, and Nobel Prize Winner Elie Wiesel, its Freedom Award.
56 viewsFormer President Jimmy Carter gave the keynote address at an annual forum on College Campus Race Relations.
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