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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The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

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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 ...

As Black Americans enter Black History Month and stand in the face of what might very well be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, it’s fitting to celebrate our contemporary heroes and learn about these ...

Lectures examining the Civil Rights Movement from Brown v. Board of Education to the civil and human rights initiatives today. The American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) refers to reform movements ...

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 ...

King spearheaded the American Civil Rights Movement, ... Mamie Till-Mobley became a force in the Civil Rights Movement after her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, was kidnapped, ...

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 ...