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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The founder of the US Civil Rights Trail will hold a book signing at Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site. Visit Topeka says Lee Sentell, author and director of the Alabama Tourism Department and…

Sheila Washington, who founded a museum in Alabama dedicated to the memory of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of young black men wrongly convicted of crimes in the 1930s and who made efforts to clear their…

Ms. Washington, a native of Scottsboro, northeast Alabama, had never heard of the Scottsboro Boys or the infamous miscarriage of justice until she was 17 when she found a book hidden under a mattress in her home."You don't have to know,"…