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Socialist Singer Barbara Dane Was a True American Radical
In 1966, the famed communist folk musician Pete Seeger was invited by the Cuban revolutionary government to perform a series ...
Sixty years after the unwinding of Jim Crow, a historic US election
President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in July 1964, urging Americans to “close the springs of racial poison.” ...
Seven men arrested for ‘sit-ins’ at whites-only diners in 1960 Columbia see records cleared
Columbia Civil Rights leaders who protested segregation in the 1960s and were arrested for it finally saw their records ...
1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College ...