In 1855, Anna Maria Weems escaped to freedom disguised as an enslaved male named “Joe Wright.”
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Simone Biles Says She, Too, Was Abused by Larry Nassar | The New York Times
After having vocally supported her teammates as they publicly detailed the sexual abuse they endured, Simone Biles, one of the most decorated gymnasts in Olympic history, added her own name on Monday to the list of those who have accused Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar of sexual abuse.
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The Long Rise and Fast Fall of New York’s Black Mafia | Daily Beast
‘You can’t become known as a gangster. Once you’re known you’re finished. The old-timers understood that.’
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Black Student Power in Boston | The Weekly Challenger
The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates popular and academic accounts of Boston’s civil rights movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s scorn for ‘white moderates’ in his Birmingham jail letter | The Washington Post
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began writing the “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” in the margins of newspapers, on scraps of paper, paper towels and slips of yellow legal paper smuggled into his cell, where he was kept in solitary confinement after being arrested April 12, 1963, on charges of violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations.
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Bessie Rogers and Taylor Rogers | StoryCorps
Retired Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker Taylor Rodgers and his wife, Bessie, were at the Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”.
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Riding in the plane that brought MLK’s body home forever changed Sun City man’s life | Island Packet
“It helped make me who I am.”
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Capturing the Civil Rights Era Through the Lens of Gordon Parks | Daily Beast
Gordon Parks captured the beauty, horror, and complexities behind the lives of those who lived during the Civil Rights Era.
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From the archives: Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about ‘new age’ of race relations in moving Des Moines speech | Des Moines Register
This story by Register reporter Robert Barewald originally ran on Nov. 13, 1959. April 4, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Southern states join to promote Civil Rights Trail to tourists | Times-Picayune
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern states that once fought to maintain racial segregation are now banding together to promote civil rights tourism at sites including the building where the Confederacy was born and the motel where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died.
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