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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Hy Mariampolski
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Yorkville, known today as the “Upper East Side” of New York City stretches from the East River to Third Avenue. From time-to-time every American neighborhood experiences growing-pains. History changes everything – even the way the “old-neighborhood” is remembered.

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