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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 ...
How Actively Black Created a Meaningful Collab With Civil Rights Photographer Cecil Williams
The Los Angeles-based athleisure brand is donating proceeds from the collection to Williams’s museum. Cecil Williams in front ...
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 ...
The Christian Post9d
Advocating the Dream: 7 notable mass gatherings of the Civil Rights Movement
Two notable Freedmen Conventions took place in North Carolina in 1865 and 1866, where scores of black men gathered at the ...
The Washington Post26d
South Carolina schools’ race, gender rules face civil rights lawsuit
The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are taught in the state’s K-12 schools. South Carolina Budget Proviso 1. ...
'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 ...
The Washington Post24d
Thomas Gaither, who led ‘jail-no-bail’ civil rights activism, dies at 86
“because I think it ultimately was one of the signature protests of the entire civil rights movement.” Thomas Walter Gaither was born in Great Falls, South Carolina, on Nov. 12, 1938. His ...
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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 ...