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Madison voters at the June 17 special election for District One Dane Co. Board of Supervisors will use electronic poll books instead of signing a paper poll book.
Iona Morris Jackson has been a staple in show business for decades. She’s been an actor, producer, dramaturg, dialogue coach, ...
The upcoming special election in Madison on June 17th will use electronic poll books instead of a paper poll books.
Like Blain, Larson also imagines her book as useful: “Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and work will be recognizable to many of today’s activists,” she writes. The grassroots strategies developed in ...
Visitors to “Lights, Camera, Action! Celebration of Preservation” Saturday saw how students in Mississippi made films about ...
Jabaar’s newly published book We all want to change the world – My Journey through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to ...
Richard Kurin, now a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian, remembers Long during the 1990 Festival of American Folklife. In one tent, Long was telling tourists, “We’re in a church in Mississippi, ...
The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer,” takes readers through the civil rights era, Northern Ireland.
It’s 1967: O’Dwyer is in segregated Alligator, Mississippi, watching the local polls to help out civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer ... more striking when the book describes how their brother ...
According to press accounts, the book (which I’ve ordered ... for justice and for the Democratic Party. Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer and Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan and many others ...