Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin
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Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks Helped Ignite the Mass Civil Rights Movement

March 5, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A pioneer in the struggle for equal opportunity and the eradication of racism, Claudette Colvin (1939-2026), joined the ancestors on January 13. Her contributions to the mass Civil Rights Movement came about […]
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Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (1943-2025) Leaves a Decades-long Legacy of Revolutionary Struggle

November 30, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday November 23, 2025, Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin passed away in a prison hospital after serving a quarter century of incarceration for a crime he did not commit. Born Hubert Geroid […]
Arrest photo of Civil Rights icon, John Lewis, from 1961
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Good Trouble civil rights protest in the spirit of Congressman John Lewis

July 21, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress The Good Trouble Lives On March and Rally to protest the disastrous policies of the Trump administration and to commemorate civil rights icon John Lewis will take place Thursday, July […]
Detroit to Selma panel at WSU Law School, Sept. 14, 2024
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From Detroit to Selma and Back Again

September 21, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A series of events between September 12-14 in Detroit paid tribute to the life and legacy of those who were on the frontlines of the struggle for Civil Rights during the early […]
From Juneteenth to Freedom Summer & Beyond
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From Juneteenth to Freedom Summer

July 11, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 18 in Detroit at the St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, five veteran women organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Northern Student Movement, spoke on the significance […]
Malcolm X and Shirley Graham Du Bois in Ghana during 1964
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African Americans and the Cold War from Civil Rights to Black Power: African American History Month Series #7

February 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe When the Red Army seized control of Berlin in early May 1945 hoisting the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building within the besieged city, jubilations erupted across Europe and around the world. […]
St. Augustine movement leaders King, Hayling and Abernathy during 1964
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Dr. King Linked the Struggles to End Racism, Poverty and War

January 13, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe January 15, 2024 marks the 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), a federally recognized holiday in the United States since 1986. Dr. King was the most well-known and respected […]
African Americans in Fayette County Tennessee organized against segregation during the 1960s
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Civil Rights and the Transformation from Tenant to Mechanized Agriculture

February 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 7 On Christmas night 1951 in Mims, Florida, sticks of planted dynamite exploded underneath the home of veteran organizers for the NAACP and the Progressive Voters […]
MLK at 1963 Detroit march with CL Franklin
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Honoring MLK Six Decades After the Mass Struggles of 1963

January 11, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On January 16 in the United States, the 94th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be commemorated as a federal holiday. Since 1986, the third Monday of January has been […]
Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod
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Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, Civil Rights Leader Who Brought the Fight to Segregated Southwest Georgia, Dies at 85

October 16, 2022 fwstaff
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  October 11, 2022  Contact: Clennon L. King   AugustineMonica MediaWorks  207.450.3585  clennon@augustinemonica.com  Albany, Georgia….Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, whose grassroots organizing of unregistered Black voters sent shock waves through the segregated South, and kickstarted […]