Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam spent more than 20 years in prison after the civil rights leader was assassinated in 1965. He had broken with the Nation of Islam.
Tag: Civil Rights Movement (1954-68)
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Kari Ann Lake’s Hijacking of Martin Luther King
Like Donald Trump, she is invoking the civil rights icon in self-serving ways.
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There Is a Way to Make America Safe for Democracy
What if we let majoritarian democracy actually take root?
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Charles Sherrod, Civil Rights Pioneer in Rural Georgia, Dies at 85
He brought his deep Christian faith and his commitment to grass-roots organizing to the small town of Albany. He never left.
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When Segregationists Offered One-Way Tickets to Black Southerners
The “reverse freedom rides” of 1962 were meant to provoke Northern politicians, and have drawn comparisons to the recent flights of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.