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One afternoon in June 1964, African American civil rights activist Bob Moses was teaching a group of white students how to survive as voter registration activists in the viciously hostile atmosphere of Mississippi when he received a phone…

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…

SACRAMENTO - Georgette Imura, a longtime Sacramento activist, died on December 17 after a three-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer. She was 77 years old. Georgette Imura She was born in Manzanar Concentration Camp in 1943 and…

Opposition to the American version of apartheid came, of course, from Bruce Carter Boyton, who was born on June 19, 1937 in Selma, Alabama, where his parents Sam and Amelia (née Platts) were both active in voter registration. Amelia stood…