Read more civil rights movement stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/23999/civil-rights-movement.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:19:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/64057/emmett-tills-casket-found-rusted-battered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs Chicagoans mourned the desecration of a historic cemetery, the casket of civil rights icon Emmett Till was found rusted in a shack amid garbage and gravestones, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “When we opened it up trying to find what we have, a family of possums ran out,” said the...http://www.newser.com/story/64057/emmett-tills-casket-found-rusted-battered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Jul 2009 9:57:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62519/supreme-court-sidesteps-major-voting-rights-ruling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court ruled narrowly today in a challenge to the Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas district from a key provision of the law, but side-stepping the larger constitutional issue. The act requires Southern areas with a history of discrimination to get advance federal approval before changing election...http://www.newser.com/story/62519/supreme-court-sidesteps-major-voting-rights-ruling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 11:04:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59529/mlks-kids-bicker-over-spielberg-biopic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe sale of the movie rights to Martin Luther King Jr.'s life has revived the feud among his three surviving children, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Martin Luther King III and Bernice King say their brother Dexter—chief executive of the King estate—only informed them of the plans for...http://www.newser.com/story/59529/mlks-kids-bicker-over-spielberg-biopic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 7:03:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59508/spielberg-snags-mlk-movie-rights.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe first authorized biopic of Martin Luther King Jr. will be a Steven Spielberg production. The filmmaker's DreamWorks studio has obtained the rights from King's family, NPR reports. No word yet on whether Spielberg himself will direct or who will play the main role (Denzel? Jamie Foxx?). King’s children are...http://www.newser.com/story/59508/spielberg-snags-mlk-movie-rights.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 19 May 2009 17:23:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55163/new-photos-bare-aftermath-of-kings-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNewly published photographs by a Life magazine lensman capture the aftermath of the shocking assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including a motel worker sweeping away the blood of the civil rights crusader. Few journalists traveled to Memphis after the assassination, and Life declined to run the photos after his...http://www.newser.com/story/55163/new-photos-bare-aftermath-of-kings-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 03 Apr 2009 4:59:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/48332/mlks-dream-now-a-reality-69-of-blacks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMore than two-thirds of African Americans believe that the goals set out in Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech have been met, a CNN poll finds. That number has doubled since last March, to 69% from 34%. Although whites seem to still think race relations have a...http://www.newser.com/story/48332/mlks-dream-now-a-reality-69-of-blacks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Jan 2009 9:28:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47525/high-court-to-hear-challenge-to-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US Supreme Court agreed today to hear a case that challenges a central section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act designed to protect minority voters in discriminatory districts, the New York Times reports. Section 5 of the law, which forces many Southern states and select districts elsewhere to get...http://www.newser.com/story/47525/high-court-to-hear-challenge-to-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Jan 2009 15:23:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44903/tuskegee-airmen-to-attend-inaugural.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Tuskegee Airmen of WWII have been invited to the inauguration of the nation's first black president, the New York Times reports. Barack Obama has acknowledged his debt to the elite all-black force, whose heroes fought for a country that discriminated against them. Now in their 80s and 90s, it's...http://www.newser.com/story/44903/tuskegee-airmen-to-attend-inaugural.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Dec 2008 6:22:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44247/folk-giant-odetta-dead-at-77.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe woman Martin Luther King Jr. called "the queen of American folk music" has died of heart failure at the age of 77, the New York Times reports. Odetta was a huge influence on dozens of musicians from Bob Dylan to Janis Joplin as her powerful voice and songs of...http://www.newser.com/story/44247/folk-giant-odetta-dead-at-77.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Dec 2008 2:37:07 CST