By Nick Gourdoux When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, it did more than just destroy houses and flood a city, it changed the state of Louisiana for the foreseeable future. When the category five hurricane hit New Orleans the levees broke and the city flooded leaving thousands without homes. With nowhere else in [...]

By Chi Ab Vang Each semester, a new group of students and professors from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire travel down south for a civil rights pilgrimage. And, with each semester that passes a new adventure begins for every individual who joins the trip. The listener Demetrius Evans watched as students stored their [...]

By Martha Landry By the time Hurricane Katrina struck the City of New Orleans, Traci Birch had already fled. After living in the city for 15 years she knew better than to mess around with the storms of Louisiana. Birch is a coastal planner for New Orleans. Originally from Ohio, Birch recovered from the disaster that [...]

By Ryan Underdahl From Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks to the Little Rock Nine and The Freedom Riders, the Civil Rights Movement was flush with recognizable names and people who helped to change the atmosphere in a country where white supremacy reigned supreme. For Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, [...]

By Rachel Minske and Ellen Mattila  The re-election of President Barack Obama in 2012 brought celebration, but in many parts of the country it also brought controversy. The election results spurred a flare-up of online secession petitions, especially in the South. During the January 2013 Civil Rights Pilgrimage, Inside Eau Claire reporters Rachel Minske and Ellen [...]

By InsideEC staff For the third time, UW-Eau Claire  journalism students are accompanying the Civil Rights Pilgrimage. The Pilgrimage, celebrating its 10th trip south, is taking 90 total students through Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee to visit  historical sites of the Civil Rights Movement. The nine journalism students will write a blog entry for [...]

By Michelle Adamczyk Sweat, spit and blood covered  the street while an angry mob circled roaring crude insults and threats. Roughly 1,200 troops lined the streets. Death threats are were hurled amid all the shouting and chaos. Disregarding all the madness, nine black students walked up the double staircase to enter the school, taking the [...]

The crowd gathers at the iron gate. As it swings open they scurry in passing posters on the wall of famous musicians who once filled the hall with music. Soon the room is full. The band enters. As the crowd cheers, the men begin to play the sounds of New Orleans. The crowd is instantly [...]

By James Kust Click to listen to this story: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Since the civil rights movement began in the late 1950s, dozens of films have been made about the events that transpired across the United States. But the accuracy of many of those films are in question. With recent blockbusters [...]

  By Claire Sarafin Click to listen: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Throughout history children have been used as political activists — perhaps never as successfully as during the Civil Rights movement. During the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s,  African American men, women and children waged a non-violent battle for equal rights. Children activists in [...]