Diedra Meredith, a childhood friend of Tory Prevost and director of the New Orleans Legacy Project, a docuseries covering the city’s history of civil rights activism, said the families of the New ...
Books & the Arts / A new book revisits the public housing programs of the 1930s. Joshua Freeman Today, Mary K. Simkhovitch is little remembered. But in the first half of the 20th century, her name was ...
Dolores Huerta gained prominence as an organizer of farmworkers seeking better wages. Here's why she visited Arizona over the ...
César Chávez, the farmworker organizer, UFW co-founder and civil rights icon, was born near Yuma on March 31, 1927.