rss rss feed

Episodes tagged "Racism": 1 through 2 of 2

Sort By:Chronology | Recently Written or Edited
  1. Anniversary march in Birmingham asks same questions
    date 1993map Jefferson, Alabamatags African American Sufferage, Birmingham, Alabama, Racism

    Years after civil rights pioneers, like Martin Luther King Jnr., walked the Birmingham streets protesting against segregation and for equal opportunity, influenced black Baptist preachers rewalked the march route in September 1995.  Raising awareness for a campaign to increase the black polling population nationwide; march leader Rev. Dr. Henry Lyons hoped black voters would help progressive liberal...

  2. An English Woman Writes About American Racism
    date 1834map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Abolition, Slavery, Racism

    Tension over slavery and race was high in the United States when Harriett Martineau, a famous English writer, came to visit in 1834.  Martineau later wrote about her two year trip to America in a book called “Retrospect of Western Travels”, Volumes 1 and 2, which was published in 1938.  In a chapter titled “First Sight of Slavery", Martineau wrote about an incident with an American woman in...