Tag Archives: Civil Rights
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was born in 1927 to parents who were farmers. Growing up during the...
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Sep
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Latinx Heritage Month: The Chicano Movement
Movements for civil rights in the 1960s around the United States inspired people from different...
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Sep
Sep
Little Rock Nine
Concrete benches line a reflecting pool ahead of a giant building with the words Little...
06
Sep
Sep
Freedom Summer
On the side of an old country road in Neshoba County, Mississippi stands a lonely...
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Jul
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Fannie Lou Hamer: IWD 2023
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the youngest of 20 children. After reaching the...
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Mar
Mar
How do we move forward together? Q&A with Rev. Dr. McKinstry
For the Rev. Dr. Carolyn McKinstry, the head-spinning events of 2020 felt purposeful-- as if...
02
Mar
Mar
Civil rights advocate and friend of the Pilgrimage, Dr. Reavis Mitchell, passes at 72.
One of Nashville’s most well-known historians, and a longtime administrator at Fisk University, has died...
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