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Georgia State Honors Black Students Who Forced Racial Integration
Three Black women who sued for their right to attend Georgia State University more than 60 years ago — a…
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Beaches Provide Refuge for Blacks During Jim Crow Era
In the post-1940s Jim Crow era, many recreational water locales, including Ocean City, Maryland, and Virginia Beach, prohibited the inclusion…
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Orange Mound Celebrates Its History
It only took about 60-70 people to pack out the tiny Orange Mound Gallery at 2232 Lamar for a commemoration…
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Black Mayor in Segregated Georgia Town Denied Office Keys by City Council — For Two Years
The mayor of a Georgia town so racially divided that even its cemetery is segregated is fighting back against the…
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Black Student Forced to Share Valedictorian Status with White Student, Says Lawsuit
The Cleveland School District in Mississippi is facing a federal lawsuit filed by a black woman who claims her daughter…
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Students Who Protested Virginia’s Jim Crow Laws Honored
The 200 Virginia Union University students who marched in 1960 into downtown Richmond for a sit-in at the segregated counter…
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How Segregation Destroys Black Wealth
(New York Times) – Americans commonly — and mistakenly — believe that well-to-do black people no longer face the kind…
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America’s Most Segregated Cities
(24/7 Wall St) – Racial segregation in U.S. neighborhoods has declined over the past several decades but it remains very…
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Allies of US Civil Rights Victim Reflect 50 Years Later
RIK STEVENS, Associated Press KEENE, New Hampshire (AP) — Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent…
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An Indelible Black-and-White Line
John Eligon, THE NEW YORK TIMES ST. LOUIS (The New York Times) — When she tore open the manila…
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