Lauren Hermele has a photo essay on 1960s civil rights veterans in Salon. Great stuff.A lot of the people comprising the civil rights movement have names that history will not record.
And quite a few live in Wisconsin today.
Registering voters, demanding jobs, risking their lives, enforcing democracy; that's what they did.
Today's Republican Party, like Wisconsin attorney general J.B. Van Hollen, and know-nothing GOP bloggers still don't get why so many were incensed by last year's voter suppression efforts. It's likely that they never will.
The American civil rights movement lives on today, knowing that they changed the course of history and stood up for their brothers and sisters.
Some were killed, blinded for life, maimed, but they put their bodies on the line against racists and know-nothings and we salute them today.
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