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Dorothy Louise Hill Gardner, an activist and educator, died on Monday June 14, 2021. Gardner was 90 years old.She was the matriarch of her large extended family and a mentor and supporter of many aspirants,…

Travis Jackson was nine years old in 1943 when Hillburn families of color launched a boycott of segregated schools.The boycott of the families was ultimately successful. Black and Indian children in the small village on the edge of the…

Published: 05/05/2021 9:13:10 AMNORTHAMPTON - Mareatha Wallace, an educator at JFK Middle School, has won the Massachusetts Teachers Association's Louise Gaskins Lifetime Civil Rights Award.The award is…

McVay told Cardina that she had just learned of the death of Barbara Johns, the close friend at the center of the Farmville strike. Cardina, thinking of that connection, now dreams of seeing a mural in Buffalo depicting McVay and Johns…

Your legacy lives on! Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was born on July 10, 1875 on a farm near Maysville, South Carolina. WomensHistory.org Reports. She was one of 17 children of Samuel and Patsy McLeod, former…

John Spratling, a social science teacher and coach and an active member of NAACP's Oak Ridge-Anderson County branch, was recently awarded the Civil Rights / Freedoms Award: Excellence in Teaching Sponsored by Nystrom Education's Social…

Sarah Moore Greene was one of the most influential civil rights activists and community leaders in Knoxville. A career educator, she touched hundreds of lives directly through her teaching and later still as a civil rights activist,…

Students in classes taught and coached decades ago by Clifton Lemelle Sr. with Paul Lawrence Dunbar in Washington, Louisiana were not just names written on a grade book.Lemelle, who taught for more than three decades and also established…