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16 of the Most Powerful Civil Rights Activists, Ever

As part of our on-going power series, we explore the most impactful Civil Rights activists in American history, from Fannie Lou Hammer to Fred Hampton.

By

Kalyn Womack

Published

August 8, 2024
News

Civil Rights Icon, Prominent Preacher Joseph Lowery Passes Away at 98

His is the epitome of a life well-lived. The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader and a co-founder of the influential Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died on Friday at 98. His family issued a statement confirming the passing, saying he died peacefully at his Atlanta home Friday night, surrounded by his daughters.…

By

Brooklyn Baldwin

Published

March 28, 2020
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

‘I Am Somebody’: A Landmark Documentary’s Enduring Lesson That Labor Rights Are Civil Rights

In the spring of 1969, Coretta Scott King stood in front of a packed church in Charleston, S.C., to address a group of striking hospital workers. She wore a simple white dress and layered strands of necklaces, her pressed, shoulder-length hair nestled under a blue cap with 1199 written in large, white lettering. She called…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

January 20, 2020
Politics

‘Moral Revival of America’: Modern-Day Poor People’s Campaign Launched

When tens of thousands of people converge on statehouses across the nation and the U.S. Capitol in May 2018, it will be to further the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Poor People’s Campaign that Marian Wright Edelman, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr. and so many other freedom fighters organized 50 years ago.…

By

Kirsten West Savali

Published

December 6, 2017