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Destroyed blade statue of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in Long Beach Los Angeles

Breaking the Mold: The Making of a Civil Rights Icon and Statue WKRC TV Cincinnati

On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was shot dead in the driveway of his Jackson home. On Saturday, friends and family gathered in the same driveway to remember him. "Medgar Evers represented greatness and put his life…

NORFOLK, Virginia (WAVY) - "What's the matter with me?" That was the question teenage Patricia Turner asked herself when she was ridiculed, spat at, and urged when she incorporated Norfolk Public Schools in 1959 following the…

Hurley Goodall was one of the first two African American firefighters in Muncie and was the first black person elected to the Muncie Community Schools Board of Education. Courtesy Ball State University LibrariesFormer Indiana state…

MUNCIE, Ind. - Hurley Goodall, whose decades as a civil servant and activist probably made him the greatest civil rights activist in Muncie history, died at the age of 93.Goodall died at his Muncie home on Wednesday, according to an…

DOVER - Mayor Carolyn Blackman grew up in a family of 12 in the south and was inspired by the teachings of many leaders, including civil rights icon John Lewis."I'm a country girl from Virginia," Blackman said Tuesday as she unveiled a…

Morris County & Dover dedicate bridge to late civil rights icon John Robert Lewis When: Wednesday at 10 a.m. May 12, 2021 Where: East Blackwell Street Bridge, at the intersection of South Salem Street and East Blackwell…

This slide show requires JavaScript.SOUTH ORANGE, NJ - Bernard LaFayette Jr. will speak at Seton Hall University as part of the South Orange Community Care & Justice Initiative's Peace and Community Justice series of speakers. The…

New poet and graduate Charles Childers paid tribute to civil rights leader John R. Lewis, who paid tribute to Lewis at the high school's dedication…