Atlanta is a city of heroes. A city steeped with block after block of historic buildings and places where Black people struggled and prospered to make Atlanta the citadel for Black America & the cradle of the Civil Rights movement. From the first Black millionaire Alonzo Herndon who built Atlan...
as the most inclusive source of employment rights. All employers who have at least 15 employees, including state and local governments andlabor unions, are subject to its provisions, but it does not apply to the federal government, American Indian tribes, clubs, or religious organizations. ...
ATLANTA - Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s new Republican-backed election law, claiming that it makes it "much harder" for all of the state's residents to vote. The lawsuit was filed Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil ...
including academics, researchers, policymakers, graduate students, and representatives from non-governmental organizations and think-tanks working in related fields to contribute to the discussion and to debate these issues and provide a comprehensive exploration of how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 continu...
ATLANTA (AP) — Civil rights groups have reached a settlement with a Georgia city to end policies that they said illegally restricted access to utility services and disproportionately affected Black and Latino residents. The lawsuit filed in May 2017 against LaGrange says the city, which is the ...
We refer to basic human rights like the freedom of speech and association, liberty, and equal treatment in court as civil rights, because they are fundamental rights that each and every citizen should not be denied on the basis of their sex, race, or religious belief. Though it has been ...
ATLANTA-Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s new Republican-backed election law, claiming that it makes it "much harder" for all of the state's residents to vote. The lawsuit was filed Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Un...
He returned to Atlanta to become co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church but also continued his civil rights efforts. His next activist campaign was the student-led Greensboro Sit-In movement. In February 1960, a group of Black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, began sitting...
CIVIL RIGHTS DURING THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION, 1963-1969 Part I: The White House Central Files Part II: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Administrative History Part III: Oral Histories BLACK STUDIES RESEARCH SOURCES: Microfilms from Major Archival and Manuscript Collections August Meier and ...
Martin Luther King,Jr.,is well known for his work in civil rights and for his many famous speeches,among them his moving"I Have a Dream"speech.But few people know much about King's childhood,Martin Luther as he was called was born in 1929,in Atlanta,Georgia,at the home of his materna...