In 1960, black protesters in Biloxi, Mississippi, were attacked while demanding equal access to public beaches. Now the remaining activists are working to preserve the history of the “wade-ins” that opened the space to everyone.
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Remembering Gwen Patton, Activist and Theorist – Black Perspectives
“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political organizing.
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‘The Green Book of South Carolina’ – New York Amsterdam News
The South Carolina African-American Heritage Commission has recently launched an exciting new mobile travel guide, “The Green Book of South Carolina,” to help residents and visitors from all over the world navigate to the more than 300 African-American cultural sites across the state’s 46 counties.
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She changed the way America saw black people – New York Post
When Ming Smith was a teenager in 1960s Columbus, Ohio, her high-school counselor told the Detroit native to abandon her ambitions.
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The abandoned ‘Black Eden’ is prepared for a comeback – New York Post
IDLEWILD, Mich. — The traffic along US 10 blows right by a dirt-road entrance. But a newly built brick marker proclaims, optimistically, “Welcome to Idlewild, a historic community.”
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Behind the Picture: Medgar Evers’ Funeral, June 1963 – Time
In 1994, eight black and four white jurors found 74-year-old white supremacist and long-time Klan member Byron De La Beckwith guilty of first-degree murder in the 1963 killing of civil rights activist and U.S. Army veteran, Medgar Evers.
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Bud Billiken Parade Saturday to be bigger, better than ever (1975) – Chicago Tribune
Tho most children today do not know who Bud Bliliken is or who he is supposed to represent, Billiken lives on each year in the parade of bands and floats that wind along Martin Luther King Drive.
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Kerry James Marshall addresses the absence of blackness – San Diego Reader
We’re the violators of their culture of leisure.
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Google, Bryan Stevenson Launch Website Uncovering History of Lynchings in America – Atlanta Black Star
Before police shootings and mass incarceration beset Black America, the grotesque specter of brutalized Black bodies terrorized communities throughout the South, which struggled to deal with the problem of lynching.
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The Negro Factories Corporation – PBS
“Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self-contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not.” — Marcus Garvey, 1929
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