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Many protests during the civil rights movement were a response to police brutality, including the 1965 Watts riots which resulted in the deaths of 34 people, mostly African Americans. [43] The largest post-civil rights movement protest in the 20th-century was the 1992 Los Angeles riots , which were in response to the acquittal of police ...
February 1, 2023: Passed the CROWN Act [32] Arkansas: April 10, 2023: Passed the CROWN Act; only applies to educational discrimination in public schools and state-supported higher education institutions. [33] Texas: May 29, 2023: Passed the CROWN Act [34] Michigan: June 15, 2023 Passed the CROWN Act, amending the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act ...
Bob Adelman (1931–2016), volunteered as a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the early 1960s and photographed the events and the now well-known people active in the civil rights movement at the time. James H. Barker, documented civil rights movement activity in Selma in the early 1960s. [1]
Civil rights activists speak about the killing of Amir Locke, February 2, 2022. At 6:48 a.m. on February 2, 2022, Minneapolis Police Department officer Mark Hanneman [204] fatally shot Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, while police officers were executing a search warrant at an apartment in downtown Minneapolis. The shooting occurred nine ...
Vendôme Pictures has acquired the remake rights to produce a scripted adaptation of ”A Fire Within,” an award-winning human rights documentary about Ethiopian refugee Edgegayehu “Edge” Taye.
The fourth chapter, "Selling the Negro," tracks the history of exploitation of Black people, from an economy of forced labor at the outset to an economy of imprisonment today. A perennial tension in American life is emphasized, brought about by the historic and continued oppression of Black Americans versus an unyielding effort among many white ...
It’s 2025 already, and while some of us are still fumbling with our New Year’s resolutions, others are busy imagining what the future holds. And let’s just say, the predictions are anything ...
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.