Atlanta’s progressive character, combined with its civil rights legacy, creates a city determined to honor the past as it builds the future. As former activist and UN Ambassador Andrew Young said, “You almost cannot escape an education in American history and, in particular, Southern civil ...
civil rights movementmemorialsheritage tourismrelative locationcommemorationThis study examines the relative location of civil rights memorial landscapes in Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; and Memphis, TN. Produced over the past two decades, these memorials are the largest and most popular of several dozen...
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Role In: American civil rights movement See all related content Walter White(born July 1, 1893,Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died March 21, 1955,New York, N.Y.) was the foremost spokesman forAfrican Americansfor almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary (1931–55) of theNational Asso...
In the 1950s and ’60s his editorial voice strongly supported the drive to win full civil rights for blacks in the United States. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. His widely acclaimed book The South and the Southerner (1963) won the Atlantic magazine nonfiction prize...
Congressman John Lewis(GA-5) is an American icon, a man who has witnessed history in the making and helped make history himself as one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls...
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SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon
rights movement. Two other civil rights organizations, theStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committeeand the Southern Regional Council, also conducted activities from Atlanta to challenge the racial status quo. King lived in Atlanta and was buried there after he was assassinated in 1968; his grave is ...
THE MOTHER OF VOTER REGISTRATION - The Fannie Lou Hamer Story chronicles the life of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer through poetically styled storytelling. The story of minority civil rights movement.