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Birdie Lee Walker is 102 years old and celebrates his birthday this month. Except: "I voted in Liberty." And that: "I just went down there and told them I wanted to vote." Sounds easy now, but it…

MCCOMB, miss. (AP) - Birdie Lee Walker is 102 years old and celebrates his birthday this month. And that: "I just went down there and told them I wanted to vote." Sounds easy now, but it was a dangerous…

MCCOMB, miss. (AP) - Birdie Lee Walker is 102 years old and celebrates his birthday this month. And that: "I just went down there and told them I wanted to vote." Sounds easy now, but it was a dangerous…

MCCOMB, miss. (AP) - Birdie Lee Walker is 102 years old and celebrates his birthday this month. And that: "I just went down there and told them I wanted to vote." Sounds easy now, but it was a dangerous…

MCCOMB, miss. (AP) - Birdie Lee Walker is 102 years old and celebrates his birthday this month. And that: "I just went down there and told them I wanted to vote." Sounds easy now, but it was a dangerous…

BRIAN WITTERELATED PRESSANNAPOLIS, Md. - Gloria Richardson, an influential but largely unsung civil rights activist whose determination not to give in to protest racial inequality was captured in a photo throwing away a National…

DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. We remember one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement, Bob Moses. He died on Sunday at the age of 86. The soft-speaking, low-key activist helped organize…

July 19, 2021 | : Gloria Richardson, "an influential but largely unsung civil rights activist," died in New York City at the age of 99, reports The Associated Press. Gloria Richardson Organizing the Cambridge Movement on the east…

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) - Gloria Richardson, an influential but largely unsung civil rights activist whose determination not to give in to protest racial inequality was captured in a photo throwing away a National Guard bayonet, has…

According to two of Hughes' children, Shirley Hughes and Solomon Hughes, Jr., their father urged Hiawatha Golf Course to open its doors to African American golfers. In 1948 the course changed its guidelines and allowed…