By Marsha Joyner
Did Martin die in vain on that fateful day of April 4, 1968? What has transpired in these 40 years with respect to King’s dream? There are several events in the Bible where the number 40 is of paramount importance—can any of them be related to our struggles these past 40 years? Rain […]
I’ve uploaded to scribd.com the complete PDF version my article in the March/April issue of ColorLines Magazine, “The Legacy of a Murder,” about the 1959 murder of Samuel O’Quinn in Centreville, MS. You can read it in the handy viewer, embedded in this post, or you can go to the article’s page on Scribd and […]
In doing my work on racial violence in Southwest Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s, it is exciting to get to know some of the other people doing similar work.
Syracuse University College of Law Professors Janice McDonald and Paula C. Johnson direct the Cold Case Justice Initiative, which has been playing a role in the […]
My latest article, about the 1959 racial murder of Samuel O’Quinn in Centreville , MS, was published today in Colorlines Magazine. The article is not yet available online, so here’s a teaser for you until I have a link to the whole thing.
The Legacy of a Murder
Racial killings from the civil rights era still haunt […]
I’ve posted a couple of items in the past about the movement to stop the white corporate takeover of the Lorraine Motel Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. The tireless work of local activists, civil rights veterans, and area civil rights groups has led to the formation of the Lorraine Motel Civil Rights Museum Community Oversight […]
While we’re on the subject of civil rights and Dr. King’s vision of an inclusive society, I thought I’d share this sweet video (via The Bilerico Project)
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The SCLC campaign in Chicago was a failure but still revealed a great deal about racism in the North. There is much of interest here on Dr. King, the local Civil Rights Movement in Chicago, the climate in the US in the mid-60s and more. This is a playlist, with five videos, approx. 30 mins […]
The SNCC Freedom Singers perform in Turkey, Fall 2007
Charles Neblett
Director Rutha Harris
Bettie Mae Fikes
Seku Neblett
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Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
Exciting developments in the notorious case of the 1964 murders of the three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Jerry Mitchell reports in the Clarion Ledger:
Authorities should reopen the Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers because of newly discovered evidence, family members say.
“Without a doubt,” said Ben Chaney of […]
Desegregation, A Story of Quiescence and Violence
By Mario Marcel Salas
Violence against integration efforts would not end after the Brown v. Board decision, and patterns of hatred and segregation would be revealed in graphic media images in the North. In 1965, a decade after the desegregation of southern schools, school segregation in the North became national […]
By John Gibson
There is a board of the foundation that controls the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
There are over 30 people on that board.
The majority of the board members are not Black.
The vast majority of the board members are corporate connected.
There are only 3 of the over 30 board members who might be considered […]
A while back, I passed on some information about the local efforts in Memphis to block white dominated, corporate interests from taking control of the Lorraine Motel, where MLK was assassinated, which has been made a National Civil Rights Museum. Gary Younge, who does excellent reporting on race issues, has picked up the story for […]
By Mario Marcel Salas
Editor’s note: A couple of weeks ago I published
information concerning the public body cavity
search of Paschal Evans, a 27 year old Black man,
by San Antonio police. Professor Salas provides
some background to this and other human rights
abuses by San Antonio police. —BG
The San Antonio Police Officers Association is the real problem in the […]
Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
2008 Benjamin T. Greenberg
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