Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself ...
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Remembering Tent City: The West TN movement that shaped voting rights
With election season upon us, it's important to remember the past. Two rural communities in West Tennessee drew national ...
On Feb. 1, 1960, the country was stunned by the bravery of four black freshmen from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, in Greensboro, who quietly entered a Woolworth’s Department ...
Author Dylan C. Penningroth says that the fight for civil rights didn't begin with famous marches. What if the conventional narrative of the 1960s civil rights era, by its very nature, limits the ...
Test your knowledge of the music, movies, television, trends, and unforgettable moments that contributed to the making of one ...
A judge in South Carolina has erased the records of seven Black men arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter. About 150 people packed the courtroom for the ceremony Friday. Two of ...
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself ...
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