Civil Rights Activist Dorothy Wright Receives a Google Doodle
Dorothy Height, an icon for civil rights as well as women's rights, was celebrated with a Google doodle on Monday on what would have been her 102nd birthday. She died in 2010.
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A three-person panel of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously to issue posthumous pardons Thursday to three boys who had been accused of rape in 1931
Actor, singer and social activist Harry Belafonte has sued the children of Rev. Martin Luther King over ownership of three documents belonging to the civil rights' icon's family. Belafonte filed a lawsuit in federal court against Bernice King, Dexter King and Martin Luther King III this week.
On August 28, 1963, Civil Rights Movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his seminal 'I Have a Dream' speech by the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, which was rated by many as the most significant American political speech of the 20th century
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