Tag: Martin Luther King

  • The Civil Rights Movement and Its Anti-Communist Opponents

    The Civil Rights Movement and Its Anti-Communist Opponents

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    The 1950s-1960s civil rights movement drew widespread opposition that frequently called Martin Luther King, Jr. and other activists as “communists,” as this John Birch Society card shows. It’s numbered CR2. There just had to be a CR1. It took years to find, and here’s its story.

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Past Article

Owen Carrollson
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It may be that hundreds of Civil War stories have gone unnoticed by historians. Except for the watchful eye of two Connecticut soldiers who served with the Union Army in the Charleston area, during the war, this story of “The Swamp Angel” is one we would never know about.

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