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Civil rights attorney demands footage in fatal police chase, but city lawyer says none exists By: Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press Posted: 3:32 PM CDT Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2024 ...
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is now the lead attorney for the family of Jabari Peoples. Crump demanded the release of the body camera footage that shows a Homewood ...
From a Memphis fried chicken joint to a tamale counter in Jackson, these restaurants didn't just feed civil rights leaders – they funded, sheltered and fuelled the fight for equality.
Angela Davis (L), her sister Fania Davis (R) and Margaret Burnham (C) grew up together in Birmingham, Alabama — three titans of the civil rights movement gathered on a Halifax stage in late 2022 ...
Crump has been dubbed "Black America's attorney general" by civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton. Here's what to know about ...
Claudette Colvin, an 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested as a teen for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, wants to have her records ...
FLORIDA: A Black college student shown on video being punched and dragged from his car by Florida law officers during a traffic stop faces a long reco ...
Hailed as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, the Stonewall Riots took place at New York City’s Stonewall Inn fifty-six years ago this month. On June 28, 1969, police attempted to ...
Object Details Author Wexler, Sanford Contents Origins of the civil rights movement : 1865-1948 -- School desegregation and the Brown v. Board of Education decision : 1949-1954 -- Emmett Till case : ...