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In the 1990s, Lawrence Johnson, a member of Waco's city council, viewed pictures of the Washington lynching at the National Civil Rights Museum, and began to lobby for a monument to the lynching. [110] In 2002, Lester Gibson, another member of the city council, proposed that a plaque be installed at the courthouse where Washington was lynched.
Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.
La Matanza ("The Massacre" or "The Slaughter") and the Hora de Sangre ("Hour of Blood") [1] was a period of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, including massacres and lynchings, between 1910 and 1920 in the midst of tensions between the United States and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. [2]
The raids have triggered outrage and cries of voter suppression in Texas, ... and civil rights. ... at 6 a.m. and in walked a group of armed men and women with police badges and riot shields and a ...
Kamala Harris is set to address the convention exactly 60 years after the civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer delivered her powerful convention speech about voting rights and representation.
In 2021, Alex Hinton, director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, says the original We Charge Genocide petition was "very compelling" but ahead of its time. He said, "While many may think that genocidal annihilation only looks like Nazi mass murder, the U.N. Genocide Convention clearly incorporates ...
Sisters of '77 was created by filmmakers Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell and executive produced by Ed Delaney and Circle R Media, in association with Media Projects Inc. Salzman Mondell participated in the 1977 conference as a relay runner helping to carry a torch from Seneca Falls, New York, the site of the first women's rights convention in the United States, to Houston for the ...
Ray Richey of the Texas Civil War Museum stands with a coat worn by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. The coat and some swords are being added to the collection.