At Chicago’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast, commitment to protecting rights is affirmed
The breakfast, held annually on MLK day, honors the memory and legacy of Dr. King as well as the work of Reverend Jackson.
How George E. Johnson Turned a Haircare Company Into an Engine for Social and Economic Power in the Black Community.
In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...
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Paul Driscoll, an unflappable editor who led the AP’s Chicago bureau for decades, has died at age 91
(Lindsey Tanner via AP) Paul Driscoll, an Associated Press journalist and newsroom leader who covered the civil rights ...
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Groups During the American Civil Rights Movement
Chicago white racists were notorious for ... increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked ...
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José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez, prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader, dies at 76
José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition, died Jan. 10 at 76. His sister ...
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Paul Driscoll, an unflappable editor who led the AP's Chicago bureau for decades, has died at age 91
an Associated Press journalist and newsroom leader who covered the civil rights movement and 1968 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, died Friday. He was 91. He died at his home in ...
Prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez dies at 76
José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition has died. He was 76. His sister, ...