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Rumor Says Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn the drugstores, for instance, where many of the sit-ins took place in the 1960s, Black people...
Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘The other America’
Minnesota Reformer via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoEditor’s note: To commemorate Juneteenth, we share excerpts of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at Stanford University in April 1967. We hear...
Rock Hill Friendship Nine member John Gaines dies
WJZY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFLORENCE, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – John Gaines, a member of the heralded Friendship Nine group that was arrested after staging a sit-in at a whites-only...
‘Lost cause’ of our nation’s brutal racism permeates society, distorting history along the way
Nevada Current via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoPolicy, politics and progressive commentary Few images from the violent attacks on peacefully...
John Gaines, civil rights leader and member of Friendship Nine, has died
WSOC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoGaines was one of the Friendship Nine, a group of college friends who were arrested during a sit-in...
James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
Los Angeles Times· 4 days agoUCLA historian Vinay Lal remembers speaking alongside the Rev. James Lawson during a panel...
Opinion: James Lawson and the enduring lessons of nonviolence
Los Angeles Times· 4 days agoJames M. Lawson Jr., who died last week, was a legendary hero of the civil rights movement; the...
Friendship 9’s John Gaines dies at 83. SC civil rights group pioneered ‘jail, no bail’
The State via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThey were convicted of trespassing the next day and spent a month in jail rather than pay the $100...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIn Nashville, Lawson trained students in the systematic use of nonviolent pressure. Interracial...
Paul Pressler, longtime Southern Baptist leader who was accused of sexual abuse, dies
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoPaul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexually...