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EJI’s New Legacy Museum Named Alabama Tourism’s 2022 Attraction of the Year
EJI’s New Legacy Museum Named Alabama Tourism’s 2022 Attraction of the Year 01.13.22 The Alabama Tourism Department recognized the Legacy Museum as its 2022 Attraction of the Year during the Alabama Governor’s Conference on Tourism, held on location at Gulf State Park on Friday. EJI opened the...
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Five little-known, but important civil ritghts sites just got grants from Southern Poverty Law Center, including the Fannie Lou Hamer Civil Rights Museum in Belzoni, MS, & the incredible photographic collection at the Cecil Williams Civil Rights Museum in Orangeburg, SC. Fannie Lou Hamer's America Visit Mississippi Discover South Carolina
This Mississippi museum received a grant for $50,000. Find out why
Congressman Bennie Thompson nominated the museum for its efforts to preserve Black history and Mississippi's civil rights legacy.
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Montgomery’s Southern Poverty Law Center reopens its moving #CivilRights Memorial Center week with new exhibits and films. Admission is free through February. Ticket info below Sweet Home Alabama Montgomery Capital Cool Ashley Jernigan bit.ly/3FkgFpw
Visit Us The Civil Rights Memorial Center is located at 400 Washington Avenue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, across the street from the Southern Poverty Law Center office building and a block away from Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church. Plan your Visit Effective January 13, 2022: The Civi...
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The man whose court case created "separate but equal," fueling the Jim Crow era, is pardoned 130 years later. cnn.it/3HC2SMK
Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson's 'separate but equal' ruling, pardoned by Louisiana
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the man at the center of the landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, Plessy v. Ferguson.
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From police spies to visionary preachers, resolve in 2022 to learn more about the #civilrights movement with these new books bit.ly/32JAzwZ Teresa K Thorne Greg Garrison NewSouth Books al.com
Peek behind the magic curtain, shake the gates of hell: notable civil rights books of 2021
The civil rights movement continues to be a rich topic for historians and social observers.
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The KKK Christmas Day killing of Harrietta and Harry Moore remains unsolved 70 years after the bombing of their home. Learn more about their story at the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex in Florida. bit.ly/3H8GGcG Smithsonian Magazine VISIT FLORIDA
This Locket Memorializes a Black Activist Couple Murdered in a Christmas 1951 Bombing
Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore attracted the KKK's ire for their tireless promotion of civil rights in the Jim Crow South
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A Northwest Atlanta brick factory that helped rebuild the city after the Civil War — using the free labor of mostly Black prison convicts — will be reborn as a park and memorial, supporters hope.
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Georgia Today: An effort to memorialize a historic Atlanta factory and mark its brutal Jim Crow past
A Northwest Atlanta brick factory that helped rebuild the city after the Civil War using the free labor of mostly Black prison convicts will be reborn as a park and memorial, supporters hope.
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Hear the music that inspired generations of protest at Los Angeles' GRAMMY Museum.
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GRAMMY Museum Presents ‘Songs Of Conscience, Sounds Of Freedom’
The GRAMMY Museum has curated a new event, ‘Songs Of Conscience, Sounds Of Freedom,’ celebrating the history of protest anthems.
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Having trouble finding the perfect Christmas gift? I'm betting they don't have a John Lewis bobblehead ...
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Bobbleheads with a cause: ‘John Lewis Edmund Pettus Bridge’ models unveiled
2 limited-edition bobbleheads featuring civil rights pillar John Lewis standing on the Edmun Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama were unveiled.
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At the Freedom Riders National Monument in Anniston, Alabama, streetside audio boxes play the voices of survivors, who were nearly killed at that exact spot by Klan gangs. Even more than 60 years later, their recollections are haunting and terrifying. bit.ly/3ymGDXA #civilrights
Freedom Riders National Monument
Visit the Freedom Riders National Monument in Anniston, Alabama, site of some of the most historic (and horrific) moments of the Civil Rights Movement.