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“Civil Rights Topics”14 Selected Stories 24 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
[...] This “topics page” lists 14 stories at this website which include civil rights-related content. Among stories listed are several related to civil rights & music; civil rights & television; civil...
“JFK’s Early Campaign”1958 21 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
[...] In 1958, the second year of JFK’s “unofficial campaign” for president, in addition to campaigning for re-election to his U.S. Senate seat and winning big – which also figured into his presidenti...
“U2′s MLK Songs”1984 17 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
[...] In 1984, the Irish rock group U2 included two songs in homage to Martin Luther King on their album, The Unforgettable Fire – "Pride (In the Name of Love)," a song about Martin Luther King’s non-...
“JFK’s Early Campaign”1957 8 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
[...] After JFK nearly won the VP slot at the 1956 Democratic Convention, he decided to begin campaigning early for the presidency in 1960... And so he began in 1957 – well in advance of the 1960 DNC ...
“1960s Girl Groups”1958-1966 25 Jun 2013 | 10:06 pm
[...] They were named The Crystals, The Shirelles, The Ronettes, and more. Their music was buoyant & optimistic, befitting a time when a new young president took office...The “girl-group sound” also b...
“JFK’s Texas Statue”Fort Worth: 2012 18 Apr 2013 | 02:08 am
[...] In 2012, the citizens of Fort Worth, Texas dedicated a tribute site and statue to former President John F. Kennedy commemorating his November 1963 visit in their town – where he made his final p...
“The Texas Tomboy”Babe Didrikson 18 Apr 2013 | 01:34 am
[...] Mildred “Babe” Didrikson, received her Ruthian nickname for her sandlot baseball heroics in the late 1920s... But baseball was the least of her talents, as there was little in athletics she coul...
“Nader’s Raiders”1968-1974 31 Mar 2013 | 11:19 pm
[...] Let loose on official Washington in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ralph Nader’s teams of law school and college students were sent to investigate government agencies and corporations... A smal...
“G.M. & Ralph Nader”1965-1971 31 Mar 2013 | 10:39 pm
[...] In early 1966, a young law school graduate named Ralph Nader was summoned to testify at U.S. Senate hearings on automobile safety on the merits of a book he had written...But a furor erupted sho...
“Dark Side’s 40 Years”1973-2013 31 Mar 2013 | 10:13 pm
[...] A 1973 rock music album by the British group Pink Floyd, 'The Dark Side of the Moon,' stayed on Billboard’s top 200 albums sales chart for 741 consecutive weeks, from March 1973 to April 1988, s...
