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Rolling through history: Fort Worth’s new bus memorial honors Civil Rights Movement
Dallas Morning News· 5 days agoFort Worth drivers will notice something not from this era while riding down East Rosedale Avenue....
Freedom Summer: 60 years since the iconic movement
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 23 hours agoThe summer of 1964 was a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, demonstrating the power of ground-level activism and interracial cooperation. Anyone over 18 in Mississippi can register ...
From 2000: Notre Dame's Hesburgh reflects on Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Movement
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEditor's note: This story originally appeared in the South Bend Tribune on Jan. 25, 2000. SOUTH BEND...
2 sisters, a farmer and a dentist are among those honored with Freedom Trail markers
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Mississippi Humanities Council and VisitMississippi have been busy this month installing five...
From 2007: A Q&A with Hesburgh about Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEditor's note: This story originally appeared in the South Bend Tribune on Jan. 21, 2007. SOUTH BEND...
9 Things People Don’t Know About Juneteenth
MediaFeed via AOL· 4 days agowildpixel/istockphoto Let Freedom Ring Juneteenth, a blend of "June" and "Nineteenth," is a 159-year-old holiday that celebrates the liberation of the...
Civil rights icon Andrew Young shares insights at Kansas Bar Association meeting
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 1 day agoTOPEKA — On a Saturday drive home in the late 1950s in Alabama, Andrew Young — then a pastor and...
Atlanta civil rights activist Rev. Fred D. Taylor dies at 82
Fox local via AOL· 5 hours agoRev. Fred D. Taylor (Credit: Atlanta City Council) ATLANTA - The City of Atlanta lost a legend....
Friendship 9’s John Gaines dies at 83. SC civil rights group pioneered ‘jail, no bail’
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSouth Carolina civil rights legend John Alexander Gaines, who spent a month in the York County jail...
75 Angela Davis Quotes That Reflect Her Commitment to Equality & Justice
Parade via Yahoo News· 5 days agoPolitical activist Angela Davis has been a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement. During her...