Fulfill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream by uniting, remembering and resisting | Opinion
Tennessee has long been a battleground for courageous, strategic, and non-violent direct action – from the Clinton 12 to the ...
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Where To Eat & Get A Little Historical In Atlanta
It’s home to the Atlanta University Center, the largest HBCU consortium on the planet. It’s where Sweet Auburn was once ...
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Newly restored photos show the ruin of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma on its 60th anniversary
A woman laid out in the street, unconscious. Troopers lined up, armed with batons. A telegram from Massachusetts reacting to the violence. As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the ...
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Services set for Lisa Young Alston, ‘unifying and guiding force’ of Andrew Young’s family
She was the superintendent of the Sunday school at First Congregational Church of Atlanta; board chair of the Jean Young Institute for Youth Leadership in Atlanta; served on the board of the historic ...
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Seabrook resident reflects on his time with MLK, the Civil Rights Movement and Selma
Reynolds was recruited to join the Summer Community Organization and Political Education, a program organized by the Rev. Martin Luther ... about hearing King and Ralph Abernathy make speeches ...
Former Atlanta mayor, civil rights icon Andrew Young turns 93
Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd Atlanta mayor.
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Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement
It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and early ’50s. Getting her political start with the Scottsboro Boys case in the ...