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New book outlines sites on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. The author, Alabama Tourism Director Lee Sentell, led the effort to build and publicize the coalition of civil rights and black history sites.
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Sentell's new book follows the Civil Rights Trail's path through troubles and triumph
Lee Sentell will be at Montgomery's Books-a-Million on Thursday signing copies of “The Official U.S. Civil Rights Trail”
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(Virtually) March on Washington through this new Fortnite experience.
"The wildly popular video game is launching a new experience themed around Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech."
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Fortnite launches virtual experience for Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech
Fortnite is launching a new experience themed around Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, which has already been met with some backlash.
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Visitors have three more weeks to see the bullet-ridden sign that marked the site of Emmet Till's murder at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Destination DC s.si.edu/3p3iXVD
Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till
In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally lynched on a trip to visit family near Money, Mississippi. More than 60 years later, the anti-Black racism that led to Emmett’s murder continues.Today, historical signs that publicly commemorate Emmett are part of an ongoing fight in the United States ...
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Milwaukee to welcome lakefront mural inspired by the Green Book #SATWmke
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Mural inspired by Jim Crow era “Negro Motorist Green Book” to be installed overlooking Lake Michigan Posted by Correspondent | Sep 21, 2021 | Curated, Featured | A newly commissioned large-scale wall mural and sculptural installation will be unveiled October 29 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Creat...
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A Florida museum honoring Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James, the first Black four-star general in the United States, James became one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen has reopened. bit.ly/2YLSWPr
Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James Museum & Flight Academy reopens with new exhibit
After a year of cloing because of COVID-19 the Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James Museum & Flight Academy is reopening on Oct. 1st
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An effort to commemorate the legacy of Sojourner Truth has attracted support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Akron, Ohio. The memorial will mark the site where the prominent abolitionist, suffragist and women’s rights activist delivered her iconic “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the former Old Stone
National Trust for Historic Preservation backs local effort to commemorate Sojourner Truth
National Trust for Historic Preservation backs local effort to commemorate Sojourner Truth
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Organizers are campaigning to create a national park honoring Emmett Till. It would include sites in Mississippi associated with Till’s murder, trial and at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where an estimated 100,000 people mourned the 14-year-old at his open-casket funeral. You can support the effort
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In August of 1955, Emmett Till took the Illinois Central Railroad into the heart of Mississippi. A 14-year-old African-American child from Chicago, Emmett was celebrating the end of summer with a vacation to see his cousins in the Mississippi Delta.
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Sadly, we've lost yet another civil rights legend, Bob Moses. The unassuming, but highly effective activists, is perhaps best known for his role in the 1964 Freedom Summer and the launch of Mississippi's Freedom Schools apnews.com/article/science-49c084dbe580042f51d4874184e63d23?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died
Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died.
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Should the Edmund Pettus Bridge be illuminated at night? A local Selma group says it will allow visitors to come (and hopefully stay) after dark.
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Effort to Light Historic Edmund Pettus Bridge Continues in Selma - Alabama News
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A project to light the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge — continues to move closer to becoming a reality. The effort was slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic — but now it’s back on track — and regaining momentum. The historic Edmund Pettus Bridge draws tens of thous...
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For every civil rights battle that made national news, there were literally hundreds that are little known outside their community. One example is in Falls Church, Virginia, just outside the nation’s capital. Tinner Hill Historic Site and monument honors an early effort to fight housing segregation. It’s nearly lost in
Tinner Hill: Where a tiny Black community successfully battled housing segregation
Tinner Hill Historic Site and monument honors an early effort to fight housing segregation in Falls Church, Virginia, near Washington, D.C.