Ronnie Gilbert (b. 1926)
Ronnie Gilbert (born September 7, 1926) is an American folk singer. She is one of the ...
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Betty Friedan (1921 – 2006)
Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American writer, activist, ...
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Barney Frank (b. 1940)
Barnett "Barney" Frank (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician who served in ...
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Yevgeny Primakov (Finkelstein)
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (Russian: Евге́ний Макси́мович ...
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Jewish-Muslim Relations, Past and Present
by Rabbi David Rosen
Few religions have as much in common as Islam and Judaism. As ...
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most infamous - and oldest - of ...
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Dianne Feinstein (b. 1933)
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein, born Dianne Emiel ...
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), also known as the Dred Scott Decision, was a ...
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in ...
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Laurent Fabius (b. 1946)
Laurent Fabius (French: [lo.ʁɑ̃ fa.bjys]; born 20 August 1946) is a ...
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The Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement At Harpers Ferry:
The Cornerstone of the Modern Civil Rights ...
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Michael Schwerner (1939 – 1964)
Michael Henry Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964), was one of three Congress of ...
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Aryeh “Lova” Eliav (1921 – 2010)
Aryeh "Lova" Eliav (Hebrew: אריה "לובה" אליאב, 21 November 1921 – 30 ...
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“Remembering Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney” by Judith Rosenbaum
August 4, 2009
Forty-five years ago today, the bodies of civil rights workers Andrew ...
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Meet the Browns: Esther Brown (1917 – 1970) and the Oliver Brown family
Esther Brown
In 1948, Esther Brown, a 30-year-old Jewish housewife in Merriam, Kansas (a ...
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Henry Moskowitz (1879 – 1936)
Henry Moskowitz (1879 – December 18, 1936) was a civil rights activist, and one of the ...
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Winona LaDuke (b. 1959)
Winona LaDuke (born 1959) is an American Indian activist, environmentalist, economist, and ...
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (pron.: /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪnʃtaɪn]; ...
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Julius Rosenwald (1862 – 1932)
"Rosenwald, Julius" by Alicia S. Roberts
Born: August 12, 1862
Died: January 6, ...
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Prelude
After the Civil War, Congress championed the cause of newly freed African Americans ...
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Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal ...
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“Isaac Mayer Wise on the Civil War” by Bertram W. Korn
In 1861 there were nine Jewish periodicals published in the United States; seven were written ...
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David Edelstadt
David Edelstadt (May 9, 1866, Kaluga, Russia - 17 October 1892, Denver, Colorado) was ...
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“Felix Dzerzhinski” by Karl Radek (1935)
The Social-Democratic Party of Poland grew out of the great strikes that swept the industrial ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) – Full Text
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By the President of the ...
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“President Lincoln’s Obsequies in the Synagogues of Cincinnati” by Isaac Mayer Wise
April 28, 1865
The day when the people of the United States were called upon to perform the ...
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The Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the ...
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David Dubinsky
David Dubinsky (née David Isaac Dobnievski) (born February 22, 1892, Brest-Litovsk, ...
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“Children’s crusade a calculated risk for civil rights” by William Kashatus
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a deep affinity for the Old Testament prophet ...
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Michel Debré
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré[1] (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl dəbʁe]; 15 January ...
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