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Many of the Atlanta Student Movement leaders went on to play roles in the national civil rights movement. Julian Bond would become communications director of SNCC and later serve in the Georgia ...
ATLANTA — ATLANTA – As America celebrates Black History Month, thousands will flock to the city considered by many to be the mecca of the civil rights movement. Yes, there’s Birmingham and ...
ATLANTA – This city is rich in the history of the civil rights movement. One thing I love about my house in the historic West End is that I can drive from Interstate 285 and travel on streets ...
'Journey to Freedom: Women of the Civil Rights Movement' to debut - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Aside from Rosa Parks, most of the commonly remembered civil rights leaders and figures tend to be male — the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and Ralph David Abernathy, just to name a few.
As the civil rights movement unfolded in Atlanta, leaders and organizers came to the table, quite literally, in a coterie of Black-owned restaurants. Akila Sankar McConnell, author of A Culinary ...
Atlanta civil rights hero asks the next generation to 'take the torch - and run with it' Rev. Eric Terrell has donned the iconic red shirt and blue overalls for decades, stirring good trouble in ...
An icon of the civil rights movement in Atlanta has passed away. Rev. Fred D. Taylor was known for his unique approach to leading protests with the help of a megaphone.
Andrew Young is a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a two-term mayor of Atlanta. The nation last saw him as he delivered a heartfelt ...
In Atlanta, Jones is not only being remembered for his contributions in music, but also for his role in the civil rights movement. "He always answered the call," civil rights icon Xernona Clayton ...
The civil rights movement wasn’t just about attitudes around racism, ... Maynard Jackson, who was very close to Dr. King, was mayor of Atlanta, and he faced a sanitation workers’ strike.
The restaurant scene is integral to Atlanta culture. But as important as it is today, it was just as critical in the 1960s. The passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 forbade discrimination in ...
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