Civil Rights

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On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks took her fateful bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama.

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The photographer, who covered protesters across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award

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America has not failed us. We have failed America. “America” represents a set of ideals, a set of values organized into a polity and a promise. The thing about ideals and values is that we either live beneath them or we live up to them. What’s broken in the country is not the values and ideals, but the people who espouse but fail them. Last night Americans failed America. We saw an American prosecutor fail the principle of “blind justice” by handling court procedure in a way most legal…

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Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister and social activist who led the U.S. civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his death in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States.