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Taylor Branch's new book examines aftermath of 1963 Birmingham, other events of civil rights movement
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | 4 months ago
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Even the prime minister of Uganda registered an official protest against the fire hoses and "snarling dogs" of Birmingham, Alabama during a May, 1963 correspondence with President John F. Kennedy, writes Taylor Branch in his latest book on the civil
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Lawson: Nashville was leader in nonviolent sit-ins
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 4 months ago
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Tenn. (AP) Civil rights leaders say the Nashville lunch counter sits-in early in the civil rights struggle were instrumental in ensuring student demonstrators across the South would embrace nonviolence. "Nonviolence had worked for the Montgomery bus
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Nash says 'agapic' energy proved better way to conduct social struggle
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 8 months ago
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Commission at The Centre. "When you change yourself, the world has to fit up against a new you," she said. "We changed ourselves into people who could not be segregated." Diane Nash During her remarks Nash imparted the philosophies and often-
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Spotlighting the work of women in the civil rights movement’s Freedom Rides
Nashville :: TN :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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That was Attorney General Robert Kennedy, barking a disparaging greeting over the phone to one of his deputies, John Seigenthaler. It was a little over 50 years ago, May 16, 1961, to be exact. Two days earlier, on Mother's Day, a group of Freedom
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Heroes of desegregation
Anniston :: AL :: USA | 2 years ago
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Examiner Columnist A group of American heroes got their proper salute and recognition 50 years later on a Public Broadcasting System two-hour documentary called Freedom Riders. In May of 1961, a group of black and white Americans departed Washington,
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Freedom Riders Premieres Tonight on Nashville Public Television
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 2 years ago
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Scared and utterly on their own, the riders were taken out of jail in the middle of the night and driven to the Alabama state line, where they were dropped off to fend for themselves. They found shelter near the railroad tracks, in the home of a
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'Freedom Riders' retells journey of civil-rights bus riders
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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Tonight, PBS will tell the stories of Joan Mulholland and Diane Nash, who in 1961 helped trigger social change in America. They were among the 400 people -- black, white, young, old, northerners, southerners -- who traveled for six months on buses
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Freedom Riders' courage, sacrifice recounted in film
Nashville :: TN :: USA | over 2 years ago
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It's been almost 50 years since hundreds of young civil rights activists boarded buses and rode into danger in the segregated Deep South...Patton, who was a 21-year-old college junior at the time, spent a month in a Mississippi jail cell and was
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'Freedom Riders': The fight to end segregation
Jackson :: MS :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Miss. (AP) — Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth. The film, "Freedom Riders,"
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'Freedom Riders': The Fight To End Segregation
Rock Hill :: SC :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth. The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring
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