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Mobile’s Civil Rights Story
Mobile, Alabama, has preserved a civil-rights history often overshadowed by Birmingham and Montgomery. Local activists such as John LeFlore challenged segregation in buses, schools, voting, and public life, while churches and the longshoremen’s union provided organizing space. Today the city’s museums, heritage trail, historic sites, and emerging Civil Rights and Cultural Heritage District connect that struggle to the places where it unfolded. #civilrights
#OTD October 16th in 1859, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry started. Abolitionist Brown and his followers tried to start a slave revolt to end slavery in the US.
Can you locate on a #map where the raid took place?
Click to guess: https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=152&type=q
ACLU: ACLU Marks the Supreme Court Term with New Digital Museum Experience Highlighting Landmark SCOTUS Cases. “Today, the ACLU launched The People’s Archive, a dynamic digital museum that combines photography, audio, print, and video chronicling the organization’s key civil rights and civil liberties milestones throughout its over 100-year history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/10/15/aclu-aclu-marks-the-supreme-court-term-with-new-digital-museum-experience-highlighting-landmark-scotus-cases/
On July 25, 1914, the #Austria-n Council of Ministers suspended the most important civil rights enshrined in the constitution: personal liberty, the inviolability of the home, the rights of association and assembly, the privacy of correspondence, press freedom, etc.
https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19140725-P-0002.xml#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19140725-P-0002_2
We will discuss this on Nov. 11 during the presentation of our World War I-era volumes.
#histodon #histodons #history #government #HabsburgMonarchy #AustriaHungary #WWI #civilRights
https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/40920/ Appeals court lets Florida enforce social media ban for kids under 14, overturning injunction #censorship #CivilRights #FederalCourts #Florida #journalism #RonDeSantis #SocialMedia #technology
Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize OTD in 1964, for combating racial inequality through nonviolence https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/montgomery-alabama/?s=mb #CivilRights #history
US immigration authorities raid home of Democratic Trump critic Ilhan Omar
The raid on the home of Democratic US Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota occurs a little more than three weeks before the midterms, with Trump’s party seeking to retain control of Congress
https://justpaste.in/news/immigration-raid-home-democratic-trump-critic-ilhan-omar/
#civilrights #donaldtrump #UnitedStates #USimmigration #USampCanada
Scott Colom is a district attorney in Mississippi running for Senate, and this has to be one of the best ads I've ever seen. He has the goods. This is the man we need to elect to the U.S. Senate in Mississippi. Support him.
#Mississippi #Senate #Democracy #CivilRights
🎥: @scott_colom on Threads
Consider using the following tip form to help America expel undesirables 😉 --- To quote the ICE Website :
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigates more than 400 violations of criminal law, ranging from child exploitation to transnational gangs. Use this form to report suspected criminal activity."
#ICE #Criminal #Trump #Musk #Hegseth #Treason #Law #Childabuse #CivilRights #USA #News #Elections #MAGA #Democrats #Politics #UN #EU