Ann Arbor became a focal-point for left-wing activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as the student movement.

Ann Arbor also became a locus for left-wing activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as the student movement.

Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris, noted mainly for his contribution to the New Atheism movement, criticized CAIR by doubting their legitimacy saying CAIR is " an Islamist public relations firm posing as a civil-rights lobby ".

They were refused service, touching off six months of sit-ins and economic boycotts that became a landmark event in the U. S. civil-rights movement.

Asa Philip Randolph ( April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979 ) was a leader in the African-American civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties.

In the early civil-rights movement, Randolph led the March on Washington Movement, which convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802 in 1941, banning discrimination in the defense industries during World War II.

Class Identity politics were first described briefly in an article by L. A. Kauffman, who traced its origins to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), an organization of the civil-rights movement in the USA in the early and mid-1960s.

But because of his experience with the FBI while active in the civil-rights movement during those years, he did not report it.

In the foreword, Benson alleges that the civil-rights movement is a communist plot for revolution in America.

Throughout the 1960s, Rush was involved in the civil-rights movement and worked in civil-disobedience campaigns in the Southern United States, and co-founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers in 1968, and was made its " defense minister ".

The civil-rights movement on campus also picked up momentum and visibility.

The decision is considered a major milestone in the U. S. civil-rights movement.

In addition to The One that Got Away: A Memoir, Raines has authored a novel, Whiskey Man ( 1977 ); an oral history of the civil-rights movement ; My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered ( 1983 ); and the best-selling memoir Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis ( 1993 ).

Frankel's direction of the off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks was regarded as a crucial production in promoting African-American theater during the civil-rights movement which opened in 1961 and ran for more than 1, 400 performances at the St. Mark's Theatre.

However, it was opposed by others, including civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin, who argued that the 1979 election had been " free and fair ", as well as senators Harry F. Byrd, Jr. ( I-VA ) and Jesse Helms ( R-NC ).

Carmichael and a white student and civil-rights activist, Tom Kahn, helped to fund a five-day run of the Three Penny Opera, by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill: " Tom Kahn — very shrewdly — had captured the position of Treasurer of the Liberal Arts Student Council and the infinitely charismatic and popular Carmichael as floor whip was good at lining up the votes.

By that time Gaines had received honors ( some described as posthumous ) and the FBI had accepted the case as the oldest of nearly a hundred civil-rights era disappearances referred to it by the NAACP.

When World War II, which had already begun in Europe, swept in the United States two years later, the civil-rights struggle was suspended for the duration.

" The Redskins had no black players until they succumbed to the threat of civil-rights legal action by the Kennedy administration.

Redding was the first African-American attorney in the history of Delaware and had developed a notable civil-rights practice in his years before the bar.

She had two sons from her relationship with the African-American civil-rights activist James Forman ; thus Romilly has two grandsons:

Historically, both newspapers — The Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Daily News — had a terrible civil-rights record.

Young caused controversy when, during a July 1978 interview with French newspaper Le Matin de Paris, while discussing the Soviet Union and its treatment of political dissidents, he said, " We still have hundreds of people that I would categorize as political prisoners in our prisons ," in reference to jailed civil-rights and anti-war protestors.

In the meantime, the case of the missing civil-rights workers became a major national story, especially coming on top of other events during Freedom Summer.

In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

During the civil-rights furor of the 1960s, the Voting Rights Act signed into law in 1965 required that racial groups be given direct representation by political districts to assure the election of a member.

Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, Beeny based himself in St. Louis, where he was active in domestic anti-communist campaigns and led local and national efforts directed against civil-rights and student-movement leaders.

It was one of the first and most influential of the counterculture newspapers of the late 1960s, covering such subjects as the anti-war and civil-rights movements as well as the social changes advocated by the youth culture.

The foundation of the Alianza came from men and women involved in the civil-rights protests, anti-war struggles, and the Puerto Rican independence movements of the 1960s.

The Act is widely considered a landmark in civil-rights legislation, though some of its provisions have sparked political controversy.

Some of the most prominent civil-rights activists were multiracial, and advocated equality for all.

Bloody Sunday ()— sometimes called the Bogside Massacre — was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.

" According to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robinson's " efforts were a monumental step in the civil-rights revolution in America ... accomplishments allowed black and white Americans to be more respectful and open to one another and more appreciative of everyone's abilities.

The missing civil-rights workers became a major national story, especially coming on top of other events as civil rights workers were active across Mississippi in a voter registration drive.

The Liberators were led through most of their short existence by Charles Koen, who went on to organize a nationally noted civil-rights campaign in Cairo, Illinois.

The meetings were intended to instruct members in fire-arms and survivalist tactics in order to fend off what Beeny called " those so-called civil-rights groups now reported to be stocking weapons " in preparation for a revolutionary uprising.

His idols were Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clarence Darrow, civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin, the civil-rights leader, and American pholosopher Sydney Hook.

In addition to violating and abusing its own members ' civil-rights, the organization over the years with its " Fair Game " doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies.

Eve Arnold photographed many of the iconic figures who shaped the second half of the twentieth century, yet she was equally comfortable documenting the lives of the poor and dispossessed, “ migrant workers, civil-rights protestors of apartheid in South Africa, disabled Vietnam war veterans and Mongolian herdsmen .” For Arnold, there was no dicotomy: “" I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary ," she said in a 1990 BBC interview, " I see them simply as people in front of my lens .”

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The park was bounded by 24th Street, Ridge Avenue, 25th Street and Columbia Avenue ( which in 1987 was renamed Cecil B. Moore Avenue after the civil-rights leader ).