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American boxer (1942–2016)
Bertha (Berth Lee) Franklin was the 55‑year‑old manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles who, according to police and a coroner’s jury, shot Sam Cooke on December 11, 1964; the killing was ruled a...
Police and coroner records from the night of December 11, 1964 concluded that Sam Cooke was shot and killed at the Hacienda Motel in South Central Los Angeles and that the killing was ruled justifiabl...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s international friendships and contacts shaped his civil‑rights philosophy by introducing nonviolence as a global practice, widening his critique from segregation to war and po...
Political counterprograms around major sporting events—ranging from athlete demonstrations and formal boycotts to NGO-led campaigns and critical media coverage—have been distributed through on-site pr...
A brief cascade of Supreme Court rulings and related litigation in the late 1960s and early 1970s loosened the narrow, sectarian definition of who qualified as a conscientious objector and then tighte...
Law enforcement in Los Angeles treated Sam Cooke’s December 11, 1964 death as a justifiable homicide after a brief LAPD inquiry and a coroner’s inquest that accepted motel manager Bertha Franklin’s ac...