Top 10 and Bottom 10 LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement Moments

Your AggreGAYtor gets Aggro on a whole year of good, bad, and fugly

"...some ways, a banner year: marriage equality and trans rights in (some of) the United States… but we also..."

Jan. 6, 2014 Qmmunity Post

Texas Book Festival 2018: Making History: The Civil Rights Movement in Texas

Uncovering the untold stories of integration at UT

Oct. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Katarina Brown

"Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties"

"Witness" brings the Civil Rights Movement to the Blanton Museum of Art

"...of policemen in Ferguson, Mo., and NYC, respectively, a movement overtook the country in 2014, centered around the hashtag..."

April 10, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

Lit-urday: Civil Rights Are Always Timely

Graphic novel talks Freedom Rides and a shout-out to UT

"...birthday have you hungering to know more about the civil rights movement...."

Jan. 31, 2015 Books Post by Jessi Cape

LBJ Library to Host Civil Rights Summit, April 8-10

Carter and Clinton to Deliver Keynotes

"...Marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – which President Lyndon Baines..."

Feb. 16, 2014 News Post by Michael King

LBJ Library to Host Civil Rights Summit

Carter and Clinton to deliver keynotes

"...Marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – which President Lyndon Baines..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Civil Rights for All

"...Dear Editor, Forty years have passed since the civil rights movement. More than 60 years have passed since..."

Feb. 18, 2004 Postmarks

Local Civil Rights Hero Overton Dies

Activist helped desegregate Austin's schools

"...were, for the most part, reluctant stakeholders in the civil rights struggle, but the experience proved invaluable in the..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Alicia Garza Talks Civil Rights Solutions at TribFest

Black Lives Matter co-founder conversation now streaming free to public

"...Matter was a political death sentence," Garza says the movement has expanded to offer concrete solutions not only to..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Lilli Hime

Rights and Consequences

The Redistricting trial pits "partisan gerrymandering" against the Voting Rights Act.

"...courtroom. "In fact, that is exactly what the Voting Rights Act is designed to prevent. To claim 'no intention'..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Nothing Civil About It

Austin Film Society spotlights 'Slavery by Another Name'

"...historical dots between this country's slavery era and the civil-rights movement? We did have an Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...When we talk about the LGBTQ rights movement, so often the focus falls on the coastal..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Malcolm, Movement, Memory

With subjects that range from Malcolm X to choreographer Alvin Ailey, Orlando Bagwell's documentaries depict the African-American -- as well as American -- experience.

"...in the Sixties while police departments, whites, and even civil rights activists got nervous-er and nervous-er. (The 60 Minutes..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Sanctuary Cities and the Ways We Fight for Human Rights

When community matters more than the law

"...of itself, is a violation of residents' Fourth Amendment rights to proper search and seizure...."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Victoria Rossi

Rustin

Colman Domingo brings a lost mainstay of the Civil Rights Movement to life

"...to death. Rustin, George C. Wolfe’s biopic treatment of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, has already put Colman Domingo..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Selma

Although it's dramatically uneven, this film is a commendable historical drama about Martin Luther King Jr. that sidesteps the common pitfalls of adulatory biopics.

"...50 years to the day of the Selma, Ala., voting-rights marches that are depicted in the film, comes this..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Seberg

Prosaic bio-drama of the radical starlet never shines like she did

"...mostly concerned with is the actor’s association with the civil rights movement, particularly the Black Panther Party in the..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Tuscaloosa

Why you really didn't want to live in 1970s Alabama

"...reviewed at press time. Mental health issues and the civil rights movement converge as a young man (Bostick) balances..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review

Crazy in Alabama

"...Taking place, for the most part, during the tumultuous civil rights movement in 1965 Alabama, it's also an education..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

We Have an Issue: Past, Present, and Future

A look back at the Chicano civil rights movement in Austin; plus, preplanning Thanksgiving

"...of political protest: the Seventies' flourishing of the Chicano civil rights movement and founding of the Brown Berets Austin...."

Nov. 20, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Sword and the Shield Shows Malcolm X and MLK Were More Alike Than Different

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph's book argues that the civil rights leaders are two sides of the same revolutionary coin

"...In our nation's hazy memories of the civil rights movement, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Being Bayard Rustin

Bennett Singer and Nancy Kates' Brother Outsider gets inside the life of a civil rights lion.

"...conscientious objector, and one of the architects of the civil rights movement. And while all of the foregoing, not..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Power Play

In Robert Schenkkan's new play, LBJ roars back to life to make civil rights history

"...man in the White House and the cause of civil rights he fights for in his first months there..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bloody Sunday

"...fire on a mostly peaceful march protesting for Catholic civil rights and against the British policy of internment without..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ghosts of Mississippi

"...Rob Reiner’s steadfastly upright take on the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 is a curious..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

President Biden Rolls Out Supreme Court Reform in Austin

Biden marks 60 years since Civil Rights Act with new proposal

"...commemorate the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the landmark legislation championed by President Lyndon..."

Aug. 2, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

'Ghosts of Ole Miss' Comes Off as Obtuse

Attempt at explaining a civil rights story is a mess

"...like us! Well, that was a better lesson on civil rights than anything from Ghosts of Ole Miss, an..."

Oct. 30, 2012 Sports Post by Will Eidam

The History and Historiography of MLK/FBI

Sam Pollard on the changing challenges of recording Black history

"...been one of the most important documentarians of the civil rights struggle. His latest, MLK/FBI, may be his most..."

Jan. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington With This New Graphic Novel

John Lewis pens civil rights history in new graphic novel

"...Washington – one of the largest peaceful demonstrations for civil rights in American history...."

Aug. 28, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Milk and King Get Top Bling

Obama names LGBT trailblazers among list of "agents of change" receiving Medal of Freedom.

"...There's no higher award in America for civilians than the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in the..."

July 30, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Richard Whittaker

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