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Freedom Summer: 60 years since the iconic movement
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 1 day agoThe summer of 1964 was a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, demonstrating the power of ground-level activism and interracial cooperation.
The beautiful vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools
WBUR Boston· 3 days agoschools in surrounding areas. The bigger question is this: Why do these problems persist when local civil rights-era visionaries already showed us how to...
Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
2 sisters, a farmer and a dentist are among those honored with Freedom Trail markers
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoHis civil rights advocacy was noticed by the Ku Klux Klan...rights home declared landmark The...
Freedom Summer is remembered 60 years later. Some hope a younger generation is listening
Hattiesburg American via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"It is incumbent on our generation to honor the generation before us because the generation...1966....
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....
Brevard history lesson: Who were Harry and Harriette Moore, slain civil rights activists?
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBut in late 2020, he and other local activists, as well as Brevard Federation of Teachers, began...
'Freedom Never Dies': New children's book spells out life, activism of Harry and Harriette Moore
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIt's a topic he feels has been distorted both in schools and throughout society at large — something...
75 Angela Davis Quotes That Reflect Her Commitment to Equality & Justice
Parade via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAnd so Black history is indeed American history...zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to...
Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of June 23
The Wall Street Journal· 3 hours agoBoykin examines the relationship between a black woman and her white friend in rural Alabama amid the civil-rights movement. Exhibitions • “Crafting the...