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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.
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I'm thankful to have attended the dedication of the new #TulsaRaceMassacre museum, #Greenwood Rising, which describes the horror that destroyed a neighborhood, and left 300 people dead. It opens to the public in mid-July, but in the meantime, here’s a sneak peek, the latest update to the website, CivilRightsTravel.com bit.ly/3w09376
Greenwood Rising: the Tulsa Massacre Museum Honors Black Wall Street - Civil Rights Travel
The story, told at the new Tulsa Massacre museum, is shocking—an estimated 300 dead, the first aerial bombing of a U.S. city, the machine-gunning of homes,
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The civil rights protests that changed history were rarely spontaneous eruptions, but rather carefully planned events. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. prepared for the Birmingham Campaign at the former Dorchester Academy a quiet Georgia boarding school, located about 45 miles southwest of Savannah. The former school for freed slaves
New exhibit celebrating link to civil rights movement opens in Midway
Friday the Dorchester Academy held a ribbon cutting for the exhibit, The Civil Rights Movement At Dorchester Center.
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Here's the story of a fascinating civil rights icon, Fannie Lou Hamer, who courageously fought for justice in Mississippi, and even challenged the Democratic Party for equal representation. bit.ly/3vEORYt
The Civil Rights Icon Who Saw Freedom in Farming
Fannie Lou Hamer viewed co-ops as the foundation of political power.
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The camps where Selma marchers slept during their epic journey to Montgomery have made the National Trust’s list of endangered sites. While the camps are marked along the trail, they have never been developed for visitors. The good thing is that once sites make the list, they’re almost always saved.
Selma-to-Montgomery march camps top list of endangered sites
Now threatened by decades of weather and wear, the campsites used by Selma to Montgomery voting rights marchers are among the nation’s most endangered historic places, according to a new asse…
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Learn how to plan a civil rights trip at this free workshop, from the experts at Freedom Lifted!
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Workshop: Planning a Civil Rights Tour for Friends & Family
This is a FREE workshop for anyone planning a Civil Rights trip to the U.S. Deep South alone or with family and friends.
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Louisiana has inaugurated its Civil Rights Trail with a marker at New Orleans’ famed Dooky Chase's Restaurant. Louisiana, which had been the only Southern state without a civil rights trail, will honor 15 spots across the state, with more planned. bit.ly/3xMpbv9
A Story of Pride. A Story of Courage. Louisiana Civil Rights.
Civil Rights activists of the ‘50s and ‘60s inherited a legacy of courage and resilience passed on through the generations. On the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail, discover the real-life heroes who strategized, organized, preached, marched, boycotted, stood up, sat down, and sang for change. Real p...