Tag: civil rights
Dr. Ben Carson In Birmingham With $2.9M Grant to Find Site...
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, this week announced a $2.9 million federal grant to fund...
Lucille Bridges, Mother Of Civil Rights Activist Ruby Bridges, Dead At...
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming...
John Lewis Mourned as ‘Founding Father’ of Better America
By Jeff Martin
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Hailed as a “founding father” of a fairer, better United States, John Lewis was eulogized Thursday by three...
A ‘Hero’s Farewell’ as Civil Rights Icon John Lewis is honored...
MSN News
WASHINGTON – As he prepared for the invocation for Lewis’ service, Grainger Browning Jr. wanted to highlight Rep. John Lewis’ humble beginnings and his...
Esteemed Civil Rights Organizer C.T. Vivian Laid To Rest In Atlanta
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The nation paid its final respects Thursday to the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement who...
Body of Civil Rights Icon John Lewis crosses Selma Bridge
By Kim Chandler
Associated Press
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final...
John Lewis remembered by Birmingham-Area Leaders as an Icon, Hero
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, Alabama Senator Doug Jones and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama were among the hundreds of leaders...
John Lewis, Lion of Civil Rights and Congress, dies at 80
By Calvin Woodward and Desiree Seals
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state...
Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95
By Desiree Seals and Michael Warren
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King...
Angela Davis Receives Birmingham’s Top Human Rights Award
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Angela Davis, humanitarian, global civil rights activist and Birmingham native on Friday received the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from...
