Last surviving Freedom Rider speaks at Dayton Black History Month event
The Dayton branch of the NAACP held an event for Black History Month Thursday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as ...
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How Southern Segregationists Reacted to Freedom Riders
One group, The Congress of Racial Equality, would tackle segregation head on with its bold series of freedom rides in 1961. We had these mixed groups of black and white activists were traveling ...
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[Opinion] 13 Myths And Truths About The Civil Rights Movement
In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...
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11 Must-See Stops on Mississippi’s Freedom Trail
From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!
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Thomas Gaither, who led ‘jail-no-bail’ civil rights activism, dies at 86
Occupying seats in defiance of racial segregation on buses and lunch ... on the idea of resuming what became known as Freedom Rides, bringing Black and White activists on bus journeys to the ...
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Charles Person, youngest of civil rights ‘Freedom Riders’ who boarded buses to test Jim Crow laws
a historically black institution. There he became involved in civil rights and in February 1961 was arrested during a sit-in at an Atlanta restaurant. When he returned from the Freedom Ride ...
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February Is a Month That’s Rich in Black History
February is Black History Month, an appropriate time for celebrating the struggles, triumphs and contributions of this nation’s African American citizens. Born in February were President Abraham ...