Fighting school segregation didn’t take place just in the South
Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
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30 Black Americans To Celebrate During Black History Month and Beyond
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Southern Arizona’s only Black history museum works to uncover, preserve past
The 11-hundred square foot museum has become a growing archive of stories, images and artifacts that tell the history of the ...
Southern Arizona’s Only Black History Museum Preserves African Heritage Through Multiple Pathways
The African American Museum of Southern Arizona, located in Tucson, is the only Black history museum in the state.
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Trump’s attack on the federal workforce is an attack on the Black middle class
Federal marshals held Ruby Bridges’ hand as she walked through a gantlet of angry white people to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans and sent troops to escort the Little Rock Nine ...
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Ed Pratt: My granddaughter can imagine herself in Ruby Bridges' shoes. Why can't everyone?
People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...
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Ruby Bridges urges people to ‘choose good’ in the fight against injustice
At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth As Ruby Bridges prepared to address a packed Rockefeller Chapel on Jan. 29, black ...
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Ruby Bridges Speaks at 35th Annual MLK Commemoration Celebration
The University held the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Commemoration Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on January 29 with featured speaker Ruby Bridges, a civil rights activist who, at the ...
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Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges shares message of faith and family during Spartanburg stop
SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child ... "What I believe drives me and always drives me is a little girl inside me," Bridges said. "I got my determination from my mother and ...