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Little Rock 9 veteran Carlotta Walls LaNier is living history
11:01 AM on 02/26/2010
Although her name is not widely recognized, this pioneer played in important role in one of the most important events of the Civil Rights movement...
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Civil rights icon fights for school that tried to shut her out
1:19 PM on 10/05/2009
In 1960, Ruby Bridges was only 6 when she walked passed an angry mob to become the first black student at William Frantz, an all white school in New Orleans. Now, Ruby is working to reopen the doors that once threatened to shut her out...
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Atlanta lawsuit reveals remnants of forgotten black community
7:00 AM on 09/22/2009
ATLANTA (AP) - In a city where black history usually calls to mind the lives of civil rights leaders, a lawsuit is bringing attention to a less known facet of that history...
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Black surfers find endless summer in Whitewash documentary
7:00 AM on 09/07/2009
OPINION - Before I saw "Whitewash," the images of surfing that were etched in my mind were from the beach party movies of the mid 1960s...
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Why segregation has asylum in the church
8:23 AM on 09/04/2009
OPINION - Eleven o'clock on Sunday morning is America's most segregated hour. But recent indications suggest that some want to fix America's last home of segregation: the church...
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Original All-Stars strike out with championship, then film deal
2:01 PM on 07/30/2009
It's the kind of story they make movies about. A team of young boys denied the opportunity to play baseball because of the color of their skin. The problem: there is a movie being made, but the men who made up the famous Cannon Street All-Stars weren't consulted...
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Feds probe Mississippi schools' racial imbalance
2:25 PM on 07/22/2009
U.S. Justice Department wants a small Mississippi school district to end its practice of allowing hundreds of white students to transfer from majority black schools, calling it a violation of a desegregation order...
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theGrio Reflects: NAACP Founded
12:31 PM on 07/16/2009
In the early 1900s, vicious attacks against African Americans were almost as common in the North as in the South. "Many whites and blacks saw the need for an organization that would be a kind of national presence, both in speaking out against this kind of racial terrorism, but also...
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Lost class reunites 50 years after integration battle
10:34 PM on 07/12/2009
In Arkansas Sataurday, it was a memorable reunion for a senior class that didnt exist. Classmates from the Horace Mann high school class of 1959 gathered to celebrate the their 50th reunion. Their class motto was appropriately called "the class that should have been"...
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James Young becomes first black mayor of Philadelphia, MS
7:50 AM on 07/04/2009
KYLE HARVEY James Young recently made history in Philadelphia, Mississippi after defeating the incumbent Rayburn Waddell by 46 votes. On July 3rd he became the town's first African American mayor. Philadelphia, Mississippi is notorious for its history of racism. The film Mississippi Burning is based on the murders of the...
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theGrio Reflects: The Civil Rights Act signed 45 years ago
7:03 PM on 07/02/2009
July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in the company of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists. Today President Obama released this statement to commemorate the legislation: Forty-five years ago today, President Johnson signed into law historic legislation that moved America closer...
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U.S. Senate unanimously votes to apologize for slavery and segregation
11:40 AM on 06/19/2009
Watch the full introduction of the resolution by Democrat Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Republican Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas.
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White Negro Leaguer shares his story
9:04 AM on 06/14/2009
BRUCE MILES (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald SCHAUMBURG, Illl. (AP) -- Louis Clarizio remembers riding the buses. He remembers seeing the signs that read, "White" and "Colored." But most of all, Lou Clarizio fondly remembers his short time with the Chicago American Giants of the Negro Leagues. And what makes Clarizio's...
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Mississippi segregated prom
9:40 AM on 05/28/2009
The New York Times reported on two proms held by Montgomery County High School in Mount Vernon, Ga. One is for white students and one is for black students. At the alleged insistence of some white parents, an alternative "white-only" prom was organized even after actor Morgan Freeman offered to...
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