Smithsonian Magazine18d
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 ...
Seabrook resident reflects on his time with MLK, the Civil Rights Movement and Selma
John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.
How Jesse Jackson embodied Southern politics − and changed American elections
Jackson finished second in the Democratic primary to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who would go on to lose the 1988 presidential election to George H.W. Bush. But Jackson’s strong results ...
WFAE10d
Remembering a North Carolina civil rights legend and champion of the poor
North Carolina and the country lost a legend last month with the passing of the Rev. Dr. Nelson N. Johnson at age 81. Johnson’s work as a civil and labor rights ... in South Africa that followed ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution17d
‘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 ...
CBS News23d
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 ...
Press-Republican22h
$8.5 million awarded to preserve 30 Historically Black Churches across the U.S.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...
In Charleston, teaching Black history was always hard. Now it’s even harder.
As political pushback against race discussions and diversity, equity, and inclusion ramp up, teachers unsure about topics ...
EdSurge23d
Laws Against Black Literacy in Pre-Civil War South Still Haunt Education, Expert Says
Beginning in 1820s Charleston, South Carolina, he traces the paranoia against literacy ... Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement — the unwavering belief of Black Americans in the promise of ...
LancasterOnline27d
This Black History Month, we hail some of the brave women who fought for civil rights [column]
Along with Wells, she fought for the inclusion of Black women in the suffrage movement ... civil rights advocate in Lancaster. After Jackson graduated at the top of her class from South Carolina ...