Mixed reactions to civil rights photographer's FBI ties
By Krissah Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 14, 2010; 10:35 PM
In many ways, civil rights photographer Ernest Withers would have been the perfect FBI informa ...
Posted Monday, January 28th 2013 at 12:31PM
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As the events of the Birmingham Campaign intensified on the city’s streets, Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in Birmingham in response to local religious leaders’ criticisms of the campaign: “Never before have I writt ...
Posted Monday, January 28th 2013 at 10:52AM
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Credited by Martin Luther King with initiating the Children’s Crusade during the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, James Bevel emerged as a civil rights leader from the ranks of the Nashville, Tennessee, student movement. Bevel was at King’s side during m ...
Posted Monday, January 28th 2013 at 9:52AM
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It was about 10 days ago that a behind-the-scenes sneak peak was released, which we posted. This is the first real trailer for the tele-film, which will premiere on Saturday, February 2 at 8/7c, and will center on the relationship between Betty ...
Posted Saturday, January 26th 2013 at 11:27PM
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IZOLA WARE CURRY
A Troubled Woman
Izola Ware Curry led a troubled life. Born into a meager existence in Adrian, Georgia in 1916, Izola’s life was a series of troubles. Her marriage was troubled. Her life was troubled. Her mind was troubled. ...
Posted Saturday, January 26th 2013 at 12:57AM
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Negro Spirituals
In the decades before the Civil War, enslaved African Americans created diverse forms of music, including work songs, field hollers, and spirituals, that would leave a powerful imprint on later forms of American music: on gospel, ...
Posted Friday, January 25th 2013 at 3:52PM
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The first vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Reverend C. K. Steele shared Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, vision of social equality through nonviolent means. As president of the Inter-Civic Council, Steele led a success ...
Posted Friday, January 25th 2013 at 3:29PM
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Numerous celebrations this week will honor the legacy of fallen civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year is especially poignant: It marks the 50th anniversary of King's "I Have A Dream" speech, which he delivered during the historic ...
Posted Friday, January 25th 2013 at 3:02PM
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Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African-American civil rights movement. She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by n ...
Posted Friday, January 25th 2013 at 2:37PM
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So in that case HARRY... you said:
Dr. King sacrificed himself for his very last speech, THE MOUNTIAN TOP speech were in he said that God allowed him to go to the mountain top and when he looked over he saw Black Americans in our Promise Land and th ...
Posted Thursday, January 24th 2013 at 2:01AM
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A Florida judge has ruled that a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is the "Prince of God" and is convinced that he will be resurrected to sit for eternity at God's right hand is sane and can put to death next week.
David Glant, a ju ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 4:04PM
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First black Senator and Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC)
The first African Americans to serve i ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 1:09PM
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Go figure!!
We live in a area that has an abundance of nature! We enjoy orange trees, kumquarts, fig trees, pecan trees, apple trees... NO Seriously...
And we also have pests like the Oppossum!!
We had a family nesting in one of our fig tre ...
Posted Monday, January 14th 2013 at 12:54PM
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Here's what's true in Ron Howard's movie A Beautiful Mind—or, at least, here's what corresponds to Sylvia Nasar's biography of the same name: The mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. attended graduate school at Princeton, where he was arrogant, childis ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 3:43PM
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Jester
A jester, or fool, was a historical person employed to entertain a ruler in medieval times and can also be a modern entertainer who performs at mostly medieval themed events. Jesters in medieval times are often thought to have worn brightly ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 3:13PM
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BATH, Mich. – 85 years have passed since the Bath School disaster. However, memories remain.
The cupola that sat on top of the school that exploded now sits in a park as a memorial.
“My father was involved in the disaster when he was 11 years ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 2:23PM
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 10:00PM
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NBC chief Bob Greenblatt said that the network is keeping watch over "Apprentice" host Donald Trump.
The real estate mogul stoked controversy with his repeated harassment of President Obama during the 2012 election. Barbara Walters implored Trump ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:00PM
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