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How Boston's Eliot School desegregated — and resegregated
WBUR Boston· 22 hours agoBy many measures, the Eliot K-8 Innovation School is a notable bright spot for Boston Public...
Celebrating late jazz icon Duke Ellington on his 125th birthday
WBUR Boston· 15 hours agoEllington grew up in Washington, D.C. A confident kid known then as Edward Ellington, he once told...
FOR THE YOUNG SCHOLARS: Horace Mann Transitional Class of ’72 hosts Hawkins scholarships program |...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 3 days agoA near-capacity crowd came out to see eight recent high school honor graduates receive their...
The Rev James Lawson, Martin Luther King’s right-hand man in the Civil Rights struggle – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Rev James Lawson, who has died aged 95, was a civil rights activist who stood alongside Martin...
The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95
WLRN Miami· 7 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson was a staunch advocate for nonviolent resistance to racism, even in the face...
Civil Rights History: Remembering the Monson Motor Lodge Protest 60 years later
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 16 hours agoMartin Luther King Jr. and others lunch. Last year, on the 59th anniversary, Action News Jax talked...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 18 hours agoCollege campuses across the nation have lit up in protests against the U.S. government’s support of Israel in its ...
'We were fighting for our life': Former Boston Public Schools student, teacher reflect on busing, 50...
WBUR Boston· 2 days agoNearly 50 years later, two people who lived through that history joined WBUR's Morning Edition to...
Timeline: Major events shaping Boston’s school busing era
WBUR Boston· 2 days agoFederal Judge W. Arthur Garrity’s order on June 21, 1974 serves as the event most associated with...
70 years since Brown v. Board of Educationoutlawed school segregation: The class issues, then and...
World Socialist Web Site· 5 days agoIn one of the most important Supreme Court cases in its history, the unanimous ruling outlawed ...