voting rights
Today in black history: Civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson dies, becomes catalyst for Selma march
February 26, 2014Twenty-six year old civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson died this day, Feb. 26, 1965, from gunshot wounds inflicted by Alabama State Trooper after marching in a peaceful protest.
Read moreAFL-CIO calls for restoration of the Voting Rights Act
February 20, 2014The AFL-CIO's executive council unanimously passed a resolution Feb. 19 calling for the passage of strong federal legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act.
Read moreClosing wealth gap tops Obama’s State of the Union
January 29, 2014President Obama, in his 2014 State of the Union speech here last night, defined narrowing of the unprecedented wealth gap in America as a major task facing the nation.
Read moreToday in labor history: SNCC founder Julian Bond was born
January 14, 2014Today people from around the country and globe are wishing the long time civil rights giant, Julian Bond, a very happy birthday.
Read moreToday in labor history: KKK found guilty of conspiracy in death of Viola Liuzzo
December 3, 2013Liuzzo, who came from a working-class Detroit family and had lived in the South as a child, traveled to Alabama after the Selma to Montgomery marches and the "Bloody Sunday" attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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