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Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society

Black demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty Images by Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst Signed into...

Knowing when to call it quits takes courage and confidence

A man reads the Chicago Tribune announcing President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision not to run for reelection in 1968. Corbis/Getty Images by Kevin J. McMahon,...

Supreme Court is poised to dismantle an integral part of LBJ’s Great Society – affirmative action

by Travis Knoll, University of North Carolina – Charlotte Of all the civil rights policies enacted by U.S President Lyndon Johnson, affirmative action is arguably...

Talk is no substitute for action

(NNPA)—Have you ever seen a photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taking part of a panel discussion? It’s likely he didn’t have time...

The browning of public schools after ‘Brown’

(NNPA)—This is the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision outlawing “separate but equal” schools. And like most...

Memories of LBJ, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton

(NNPA)—Covering the three-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the University of Texas last week brought back a...

GOP, confront your racism problem

  LZ GRANDERSON   by LZ Granderson (CNN) -- When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he reportedly said...

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