Nonviolent Black student demonstrators were met with fire hoses and dogs in May 1963 during the 10-week Birmingham desegregation campaign organized in part by Martin Luther King Jr. Project Confrontation led to the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Martin Luther King Jr.’s martyrdom and then a new life for his country: Everything from the rise of the Black …
LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden on Tuesday hailed the life of Harry Belafonte, the music legend and civil rights activist who died at the age of 96. “He will be remembered as a great American.” But for all his praise of Belafonte’s fight for justice and human rights, Biden didn’t mention that Belafonte was a strong, decadeslong advocate for …
