Civil Rights Movement

Georgia Gilmore adjusts her hat for photographers in 1956 during the bus boycott trial of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala. She testified: "When you pay your fare and they count the money, they don't know the Negro money from white money."

Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement

8:16am January 15, 2018

by Maria Godoy

Georgia Gilmore organized black women to cook without raising the suspicions of their white employers, and poured the proceeds into an alternative transportation system for Montgomery bus boycotters.

Harold Dahmer, whose father Vernon Dahmer was killed in 1966 by the Ku Klux Klan, smiles when he sees a photograph of his younger self on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

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'Uncomfortable' Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Aims To Face Past, Move Forward

12:07pm December 09, 2017

by Debbie Elliott

Organizers hope to stay focused on the museum's message for its opening, despite African-American congressmen's objections to President Trump's presence.

James Baldwin poses at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France in 1979.

Arts

Director Raoul Peck: James Baldwin Was 'Speaking Directly To Me'

3:08pm February 14, 2017

Baldwin "gave me very early on the instruments I needed to ... deconstruct the world around me," Peck says. His documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, chronicles the life of the civil rights era writer.

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Rep. John Lewis views for the first time images and his arrest record for leading a nonviolent sit-in at Nashville's segregated lunch counters in 1963.

In Nashville, Rep. John Lewis Gets Surprise From His Civil Rights Past

9:41am November 22, 2016

by Tony Gonzalez

The Georgia Democrat says he almost cried when he realized his visit to Nashville included an unexpected gift. Leaders presented him with an artifact from his early days of civil rights activism.

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Remembering Noted Civil Rights Attorney Jack Greenberg

1:37pm October 14, 2016

Greenberg, who died Wednesday, was the last surviving attorney to argue the cases that led to the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. Originally broadcast in 1994 and 2004.

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"The Soiling of Old Glory," was taken on April 5th, 1976, during the Boston busing desegregation protests.

Life After Iconic Photo: Today's Parallels Of American Flag's Role In Racial Protest

4:56pm September 18, 2016

by NPR Staff

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken during the busing desegregation protests captured a nation. The photographer and subject of "The Soiling of Old Glory," talk about it's significance 40 years on.

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Susan Glisson, former director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi, facilitates discussions on slavery and race.

Mississippi Woman Fosters Candid Conversations About Race

4:07pm September 16, 2016

by Debbie Elliott

In order to create open dialogue, Susan Glisson is facilitating discussions on race in communities around the world.

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The front page of the 1965 Selma Times-Journal, which showed Bernard Kleina — then Father Kleina — being arrested.

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When King Came To Chicago: See The Rare Images Of His Campaign — In Color

5:04pm June 18, 2016

by NPR Staff

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went north, leading the Chicago Freedom Movement. Bernard Kleina and his camera were there, too — and the former priest walks NPR through his color photos.

Montgomery police cadets gathered outside the Rosa Parks Museum before a tour. The tour is part of a course called "Policing in a Historic City: Civil rights and Wrongs in Montgomery."

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In Montgomery, Rosa Parks' Story Offers A History Lesson For Police

6:49am November 30, 2015

by Debbie Elliott

Sixty years ago Tuesday, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Recruits in Montgomery, Ala., are learning about Parks in a course aimed at eliminating bias in policing.

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Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan, who was a college student in 1955, remembers the relaxed atmosphere in the courtroom during the trial. "Even the jury were laughing," he says.

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6 Decades Later, Acquittal Of Emmett Till's Killers Troubles Town

2:16pm September 25, 2015

by Debbie Elliott

The murder of the 14-year-old black boy and subsequent trial before an all-white jury was an early landmark in the civil rights movement.

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