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From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
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‘Spell Freedom’ celebrates unsung educators behind the Civil Rights Movement
When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...
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Retired judge recognized for murder trial leans into civil rights past
Retired Judge Clifton Newman reflects on his family's legacy of fighting for civil rights while the nation faces uncertainty ...
South Carolina remains plaintiff in lawsuit challenging disability civil rights
Citing his ongoing opposition to Biden-era "woke" gender ideology, SC's attorney general carries on with legal challenge to ...
65 years later, Greensboro sit-in pioneer Joseph McNeil reflects on historic civil rights protest
Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, recalls the momentous sit-in that ignited a nationwide civil rights movement as he ...
'Eyes on the Prize III' expands a classic with lessons on the civil rights fights of recent decades
Without frills, important HBO documentary series looks back at 1970s arson in the Bronx, the Million Man March of 1995 and ...
Civil rights icon Willa Cofield hosts book signing for new memoir
On Saturday, Cofield, 96, hosted a book signing at Plainfield Library for her new memoir, “The Nine O’Clock Whistle,” before ...
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Laws Against Black Literacy in Pre-Civil War South Still Haunt Education, Expert Says
The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...
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65 years later, Greensboro sit-in pioneer Joseph McNeil reflects on historic civil rights protest
North Carolina. The peaceful sit-in, which lasted more than five months, sparked a wave of similar protests across the South and became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. McNeil ...
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Census Bureau stopped work on data for protecting trans rights, former director says
Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR.