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Communities for Immunity

WebCommunities for Immunity builds on a number of earlier and ongoing efforts to activate engagement in vaccine confidence work, including Vaccines & US, led by the Smithsonian and in collaboration with a range of partner organizations and individuals; Vaccinate with Confidence from the CDC; We Can Do This from the U.S. Department of Health and

Actived: 8 days ago

URL: https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/communities-for-immunity

The Legacy of King’s Influence from Black Power to Black …

WebThe Black Panther Party's grassroots organizing reflected the core components of King's legacy and philosophical al approach to change. The Panther’s survival program’s (community service programs that the party hoped would ensure Black people's survival pending revolution) were designed to eliminate the profit motive from the daily human …

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Poverty, Racism, and the Legacy of King’s Poor People’s …

WebBy Keri Leigh Merritt . Reflecting back upon the fifty years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one singular point always stands out, a searing reminder of what was – and still is – America’s grossest injustice: that in one of the richest nations in the world, so many millions of people remain trapped in cyclical, soul-crushing poverty.

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A Conversation with Ruby Bridges & Chelsea Clinton

WebWatch on. “ A Conversation with Ruby Bridges and Chelsea Clinton ,” is a virtual dialogue between two education advocates and authors on the intersection of race, class, gender and generations. The one-hour virtual event is a sharing of personal stories, struggle, Southern roots and congruent pathways that have brought them where they are

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Dr. King’s Dream Deferred: Poverty, & Economic Human …

WebWhile the poverty rate dropped from its first estimate in 1959 at 22.4% to a low of 11.1% in 1973, it has since risen, topping 15% during the mid-1980s, mid-1990s, and in 2010 in the wake of the Great Recession. U.S. Census data from 2015 reported a poverty rate of 13.5%, with a total of “ 43.1 million poor people."

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Defining the Dream: A Larger Vision for America and …

WebDefining the Dream. Each generation looks at history from a different perspective. As someone who came of age in the 1960s, I followed King’s agenda closely. When he urged young men to refuse the draft, I became a conscientious objector. When he called on us to confront racial and economic inequality, I went on a bus from Pontiac, Michigan

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Voting Is Power National Civil Rights Museum

WebVoting Is Power 901 (VIP901) Voting is Power 901 (VIP901) is a joint campaign between the NAACP Memphis Branch and the National Civil Rights Museum along with additional partners the Black Business Association and the National Association of Health Services Executives Memphis Chapter to increase knowledge about the voting …

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Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See exhibit

WebMamie Till-Mobley changed the world when she insisted it join her in bearing witness to the murder of her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955. Her actions inspired positive change from the civil rights movement through today. The exhibit arrives to the National Civil Rights Museum October 7, 2023 and will share how a mother’s

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It’s True. When America Catches A Cold, Black America Gets …

WebFrom Black Enterprise, May 24, 2020 by Terri Lee Freeman. Just as 9/11 defined the new millennium, the novel coronavirus will certainly be the story of the decade. The global pandemic has caused a devastating public health crisis, initiated a global economic disaster, and in the United States, pulled back the curtain on the deep-rooted racial …

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Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist, Journalist, Reformer, 1818

WebFrederick Douglass, an icon of American history, was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818. Born a slave, Douglass escaped to freedom in his early twenties. He rose to fame with the 1845 publication of his first book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself.

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Board of Directors

WebExecutive Director, AFSCME Local 1733. Michael Ugwueke. President, COO, Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare. Sylvia Williams. General Counsel for Global Sourcing, International Paper. Spence Wilson, Jr. Vice President, Kemmons Wilson Companies. Access the full, current list of the National Civil Rights Museum's Board of Directors.

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