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Marker acknowledges occasion that cemented St. Relaxation Baptist’s place in civil rights historical…

Jun 14, 2021

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - A Shreveport church was about 89 years old when it needed to be relocated to make way for Interstate 20 construction.Then it was bombed shortly after the congregation moved into their new home in 1961.Now the…

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Wilmington Faculty acknowledges native piece of American Civil Rights historical past

Apr 3, 2021

WILMINGTON - Images of the Montgomery bus boycott, March 1963 in Washington, and Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama rightly come to mind when one thinks of the American civil rights movement. But southwest Ohio,…

Civil Rights

Faculty Board acknowledges unjust firing of civil rights heads

Feb 27, 2021

VIERA, Florida (AP) - In 1946, civil rights activism from Brevard County's educators Harry and Harriette Moore began work. It was returned in 2021.Nearly 70 years after their murders, Brevard County's Education Board passed a resolution…