The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement The Bureau of Investigations was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, and renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 1935. J.

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Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become "radicalized."In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay ...

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American civil rights leader Malcolm X at an outdoor rally, in New York City. Getty Images 4. Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper turned fierce voting rights activist ...

PLAY Episode Date: March 27, 2025 Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and ...