How should we remember Pauli Murray? Social justice center is a start.
The new Pauli Murray Center in Durham, North Carolina, preserves the legacy of a gender-nonconforming giant of the civil ...
Historical society marks 65th anniversary of Southern lunch-counter protests
Kelton Edmonds doesn’t just know the history of the “Greensboro Four,” the group of Black freshman students at North Carolina Architectural & Technical State College, who staged the first ...
Thomas Gaither, who led ‘jail-no-bail’ civil rights activism, dies at 86
The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...
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Discover How Four Black College Students Sparked a Nationwide Civil Rights Movement, on This Date in 1960
By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...
NC A&T Honors A Civil Rights Legacy: Celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins
This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...
‘It handcuffs the minds of our children’: Civil Rights lawsuit challenges SC curriculum restrictions
The State Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver and two Midlands school districts are at the forefront of a Civil Rights ...
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South African president signs controversial land seizure bill, eroding private property rights
The Freedom Front Plus party, which defends the rights of South Africa's White minority, vowed to challenge the law and do "everything in its power" to have it amended if it is found to be ...
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Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
His fellow leader, Charles McDew, was enrolled at nearby South Carolina State College ... Gaither said in a 2011 oral history of the civil rights movement. “The amazing thing about the ...
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Trump's anti-DEI orders worry some federal workers
While landmark laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ... a law professor at the University of South Carolina who worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces ...
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League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander
Other states (like Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico), have ruled that partisan gerrymandering violates voters’ rights under similar provisions. Representing the League of Women Voters of South ...
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Our History
1998 – A South Carolina jury awards the largest judgment ever against ... a report finding that most states fail at teaching students about the civil rights movement. 2011 – The public school district ...
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Photos: Snow at the beach! A look at the winter wonderland along the Carolina coast
It was indeed a rare but beautiful sight to see Tuesday night into Wednesday morning along the Carolina coast. Several inches of snowfall made its way up from the south, through the Carolinas ...