The Tulsa race riot was a large-scale, racially motivated pogrom on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which a group of whites attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Greenwood District, the wealthiest black community in the United States (now commonly referred to as “the Black Wall Street”), was burned to the ground. […]
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael “Mickey” Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder in the summer of 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood […]
It’s been 55 years since human-rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated in Harlem in front of hundreds of witnesses. But new evidence suggests two of the three men convicted of the crime are actually innocent. A new Netflix documentary, “Who Killed Malcolm X,” explores the mysteries surrounding the murder. Ivette Feliciano sat down with a […]
Whether spoken or written, the words of Civil Rights pioneer Malcolm X have influenced generations. Now, more than five decades after his assassination, we’re learning much more about his views of the world thanks to some newly unveiled documents. Vladimir Duthiers reports. Subscribe to the “CBS This Morning” Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/1Q0v2hE Watch “CBS This Morning” […]