*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Aug 28, 2019 Aug 28, 2019 0 Hundreds of thousands of civil rights supporters gathered August 28, 1963 around the Lincoln Memorial ...

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"Our voices matter. If it didn't, they wouldn't be trying so hard to shut us up." Sixty-two years ago, on Aug. 28, 1963, 250,000 people, Black and white, gathered in Washington, D.C. to demand jobs, ...

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On a hot summer day a little over six decades ago, a quarter of a million people gathered peacefully in Washington, D.C. to demand laws to advance civil rights, protect voting rights and stop ...

Meet the grandmothers, mothers, and daughters protesting on Inauguration Day. — -- When Teresa Shook, a grandmother from Hawaii, posted "I think we should march" on Facebook on election night, ...

Origins of the civil rights movement : 1865-1948 -- School desegregation and the Brown v. Board of Education decision : 1949-1954 -- Emmett Till case : 1955 -- Montgomery bus boycott : 1955-1957 -- ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...