Tag Archives: civil rights movement

Lessons From History: The 1963 Bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church

Posted on September 15, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Early in the century, when he was U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, former Senator Doug Jones prosecuted Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, who as members of the Ku Klux Klan participated in the 1963 … Continue reading →

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60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Trish Nelson

60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday  contributed by Molly Regan Saturday, March 8, 2025 1:00PM – 2:30PM MLK Interpretive Center 501 N. Brady St., Davenport, Iowa Join us, on an educational journey, as we discuss the events leading up to, and … Continue reading →

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Learning The Right Lessons From History

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Trish Nelson

This MLK Day, Let’s Learn the Right Lessons from History Dr. King was a giant, but history is also made by ordinary people standing up for what’s right. That takes all of us. By Svante Myrick | January 11, 2023.  … Continue reading →

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Get On The Bus

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Trish Nelson

Reprinted with permission from the Winter 2018 issue of  The Prairie Progressive, Iowa’s oldest progressive newsletter, available only in hard copy for $12/yr.!! Send check to PP, Box 1945, Iowa City 52244. [from a transcript of remarks given at Bethel … Continue reading →

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President Obama’s Selma 50th Anniversary Speech

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Trish Nelson

Some say this is President Obama’s most powerful speech.  Video is of the full speech. Full text is below.   thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/president obamas_selma_50th_anniversary_speech_full_text Below, the full remarks of President Barack Obama as he speaks from the Edmund Pettus Bridge marking the … Continue reading →

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