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Rolling through history: Fort Worth’s new bus memorial honors Civil Rights Movement
Dallas Morning News· 14 hours agoFort Worth drivers will notice something not from this era while riding down East Rosedale Avenue....
Freedom Summer is remembered 60 years later. Some hope a younger generation is listening
Hattiesburg American via Yahoo News· 20 hours ago"I don't know whether I would have been able to stop it. "You...have to go to another memorial. I am...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 10 hours agoCivil rights attorney Ben Crump is taking his story to Hollywood. Deadline reports that the lawyer is working with Matthew Carnahan (House of Lies) and Emmy nominee Nadia ...
Juneteenth means more than celebrations in Jackson. It's a time of reflection, commemoration
Gannett via AOL· 20 hours agoHezekiah Watkins, once a freedom rider in Jackson starting at just 13 years old, is now a docent at...
Civil Rights Activist Rev. James Lawson Jr. Dead at 95
Black America Web· 7 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died. A Civil Rights activist, Rev. Lawson spent his life practicing...
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 Reverend James Lawson Jr., Civil Rights Trailblazer, Dies at 95 - The Baltimore Times
Baltimore Times· 5 days agoReverend James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist pastor and civil rights leader, passed away at the age of...
How to celebrate Juneteenth in St. Augustine? Here's a list of events
The St. Augustine Record via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAugustine’s bayfront Monson Motor Lodge's whites only restaurant. Documents show that while locked...
Civil rights era leader dies at 95 | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 7 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
Retired AP reporter Hoyt Harwell dies at 93; covered key events in the American South
KAAL Austin· 1 day agoHoyt Garland Harwell, a longtime reporter for The Associated Press who covered key events in the American South and was a mentor to young reporters, has died. Harwell died at home June 12 following ...