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Civil Rights Movement

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Benches, Beaches & Boycotts—the Civil Rights Movement in Tampa Bay

Black people were only allowed in downtown St. Petersburg except to go to work. Dr. Ralph…

  • February 19, 2021
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History
  • Politics

Years in Atlanta City Hall tested Lewis’ mettle

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  • July 18, 2020
  • Author TWC
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  • Diversity
  • Featured

Then and now: USF St. Petersburg professors weigh in on historic parallels of the BLM Movement

The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington…

  • July 9, 2020
  • Author TWC
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  • Education
  • Featured

Harry Lee, Willie Mae and Fannie Lou: ‘Lest we forget’

BY GOLIATH J. DAVIS, III, PH.D., Contributor ST. PETERSBURG — I am asked why I am…

  • June 4, 2020
  • Author TWC
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Opening reception of local Civil Rights Movement exhibition

Panelist Fred Hearns, Gwendolyn Reese and Victoria Oldham discussed the Civil Rights…

  • September 13, 2019
  • Author TWC
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Civil rights legend visits St. Pete

Ernest Patton, Jr. and Rev. Jana Hall-Perkins, senior pastor of McCabe United Methodist…

  • March 14, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture

“You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West”

By Chauncey Devega | Salon “Green Book” won three awards, including Best…

  • March 14, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Black History: Front & Center
  • Featured

1968: A pivotal year of change

Robert Kennedy and Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy toured the damages after days of rioting in…

  • February 7, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

On Jackie Robinson’s 100th Birthday, Celebrate A Man Whose Impact Was Bigger Than Baseball

By Aaron Homer | Inquisitr Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of baseball…

  • January 31, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

The Underground Kitchen That Funded the Civil Rights Movement

By Jessica Gringrich | Atlas Obscura ON DECEMBER 5, 1955, FOUR days after Rosa Parks was…

  • January 17, 2019
  • Author TWC
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The Unsolved Mystery of the First People Killed During the Civil Rights Movement

By Erin Blakemore | History It was a double celebration: Christmas, and the Moores’…

  • December 20, 2018
  • Author TWC
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Voting barriers in the 21st century

Civil rights advocates protesting against discriminatory voting laws in 1964.   BY…

  • September 21, 2018
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture

Memo to 2018 from the 1960s: Forget ‘civility.’ Get angry. Don’t stop.

By Chris Taylor | Mashable To hear David Gergen tell it, the turbulent history of…

  • June 28, 2018
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

R.I.P. Don Hogan, 79, lauded photographer of Civil Rights Era

by Niraj Chokshi via nytimes.com The photographer Don Hogan Charles in New York in the…

  • December 28, 2017
  • Author TWC
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  • Visionary Brief

She breaks barriers

BY Keisha Bell Have you ever wondered if there is a purpose to your life? Are there…

  • December 14, 2017
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

The FBI and the Mischaracterization of Bayard Rustin

From left to right: Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, Representative William Fitts Ryan…

  • December 7, 2017
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

When ‘Miss’ Meant So Much More: How One Woman Fought Alabama — And Won

BY CAMILA DOMONOSKE, NPR June 1963. Gadsden, Ala. Mary Hamilton, 28, stood in a…

  • December 7, 2017
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

In 1956, the racist governor of Mississippi started a secretive commission to fight integration

Abetting murder was among the misdeeds The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission is…

  • September 22, 2017
  • Author TWC
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