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Former President Joe Biden designated the three sites as part of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument as ...
The Howard-Linton Barbershop became a shelter for many when the push for civil rights turned violent in Tuscaloosa.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans allege the park’s changes to its Civil War history exhibits violate state law.
Among them is the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument. It includes the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four little girls died in a bombing set by a white supremacist in 1963, ...
President Barack Obama added to both his environmental and civil rights legacies by establishing three new national monuments pertinent to the Civil Rights era and expanding two national monuments in ...
July 24 (UPI) --Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley will be honored with three national monuments in Illinois and Mississippi. President Joe Biden will designate the national monuments on ...
A monument to Viola Liuzzo, a White woman killed while transporting Black demonstrators from the 1965 voting rights march, and her friend, Sarah Evans, has been unveiled in Detroit.
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers has reintroduced a bill that would start the process of building more public monuments dedicated to civil rights icons. It sets aside $500,000 for the state's ...
Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument interprets the struggle for equality and civil rights in the city, and it was established in 2017. The park’s boundary includes The Gaston Motel, Kelly ...
Civil-rights leaders gathered Tuesday at the Capitol to decry Gov. Doug Ducey's refusal to back removal of the state's six Confederate memorials.
Is Birmingham’s Civil Rights History on the DOGE chopping block? The sell off of federal buildings and historic monuments raise concerns.