Antonio Maceo Smith (April 16, 1903 - December 19, 1977) was a civil rights leader in Dallas, Texas, whose years of activism with the National Association...

A. Maceo Smith High School was a four-year public high school serving grades 9-12 in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas (USA). It was part of the Dallas...

closed, the school re-opened as a Dallas ISD school in 2011. It absorbed students from A. Maceo Smith, which became a technology magnet school in fall...

From 2005–2006 to 2010–2011 A. Maceo Smith High School served as Wilmer's high school. Dallas ISD was considering opening a new Wilmer-Hutchins Elementary...

texts. For years, he had spoken about dreams, quoted from Samuel Francis Smith's popular patriotic hymn "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)", and referred...

New Tech High School at B. F. Darrell, formerly A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School, is a four-year public high school serving grades 9–12 in the Oak...

Six-Year-Old Girl's March to School Changed the World. Illustrator: Nikkolas Smith. New York: Orchard Books. ISBN 9781338753882. OCLC 1268545501. Biography...

from any semblance of social equality. A week before Till arrived in Mississippi, a black activist named Lamar Smith was shot and killed in front of the...

Carter High School (Weiss zone) and A. Maceo Smith High School (Starks and Young zones). The Dallas ISD considered opening a new Wilmer-Hutchins Elementary...

Leadership Academy at A. Maceo Smith (BOMLA) is a magnet secondary school for boys located in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. It is a part of the Dallas...

peacemaking brother, Martin, A. D.—according to his father—was "a little rough at times" and "let his toughness build a reputation throughout our neighborhood...

southern states, the primaries were the only competitive contests. In 1944 in Smith v. Allwright, the Supreme Court ruled against the white primary. Although...

Smith, a powerful Virginia Democrat who chaired the House Rules Committee and strongly opposed the legislation. Smith's amendment was passed by a teller...

to 1963. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a U.S. representative and U.S. senator. Born in Stonewall, Texas, Johnson worked as a high school...

implication that Black men should serve in the war, Jerome Smith scolded the young Attorney General. Smith, a Black man and Civil Rights advocate had been severely...

Pollard Jo Ann Robinson Bayard Rustin Nate Singleton Glenn Smiley Mary Louise Smith Committee for Nonviolent Integration Fellowship of Reconciliation Georgia...

featured in the film was a 1970 cover of a Mahalia Jackson song 'Walk With Me Lord' cover by Martha Bass and the Harold Smith Majestics Choir. Selma premiered...

recorded a version of the latter song. Wadada Leo Smith's album Ten Freedom Summers contains a track called "Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand...

is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama, it is based on a screenplay...

Mary Louise Smith, there may not have been a Thurgood Marshall, a Martin Luther King or a Rosa Parks." In 2000, Troy State University opened a Rosa Parks...

Bondage and My Freedom: Part I – Life as a Slave, Part II – Life as a Freeman, introduction by James McCune Smith, edited by John Stauffer. New York: Random...

The 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protest was part of a series of events during the civil rights movement in the United States which occurred on June 18, 1964...

Justice Harry Blackmun's dissent when the Court in Employment Division v. Smith upheld a restriction on religious uses of peyote and curtailed Sherbert v. Verner's...

hymnals such as The United Methodist Hymnal, #585, adapted by William Farley Smith in 1987, and in the Unitarian Universalist Hymn Book, Singing the Living...

long-term tenants, Jacqueline Smith, refused to leave her room. Smith, who had lived at the motel since 1973 and had worked there as a housekeeper, protested...

born and raised in Florida. He attained a good education in his community at Cookman Institute, but did not see a future for himself in the discriminatory...

a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement. Since the late 19th century, Southern state legislatures had passed and maintained a series...

truth", or "truth force", is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. Someone who practises satyagraha is a satyagrahi. The term satyagraha...

Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m. He was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his...

broad daylight around 10 a.m. at close range on the lawn of the Lincoln County courthouse in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Lamar Smith, a 63-year-old farmer and...