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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum: Dr George Simkins Jr.
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Thursday, April 24, 2008. Dr George Simkins Jr. Dr George Simkins Jr. Simkins also was involved in court actions to desegregate Wesley Long Community and Moses Cone hospitals, the public libraries, and the municipal tennis and golf facilities. He also was among those whose lawsuit resulted in a federal judge ordering the Greensboro city schools in 1971 to use busing to bring about total integration of the schools. Simkins died in November 2001. GEORGE SIMKINS, interviewee.
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Sunday, May 4, 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What is a Freedom Fighter? A person who fights for civil, human, personal rights and social justice using violent and/or nonviolent tactics. Radical Southern Histories of Organizing and Resistance. Sarah C. Roberts.
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum: March 2008
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Monday, March 31, 2008. Fannie Lou Hamer representing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Written and performed by mZuri. For more information visit her myspace. Hamer was an inspirational figure to many involved in the struggle for civil rights. She died on March 14, 1977, at the age of 59. Photo credit: http:/ z.about.com/d/afroamhistory/1/0/P/4/fannielouhamer.jpg. Labels: civil rights movement. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum: Amelia Boynton Robinson
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Sunday, May 4, 2008. Civil rights leader Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson was born on August 18, 1911 in. Both of her parents were of African, Native American, and German descent. That black people would be able to go to. She also served as Home Demonstration Agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the 30s. Were among those in attendance. In 1964, Robinson was the first African American woman from. To meet with President Lyndon Johnson after he signed the act.
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum: Sojourner Truth
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Thursday, May 15, 2008. NAME: Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth). BIRTHPLACE: Ulster County, New York. I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.". Isabella wandered, not sure where she was going, and prayed for direction. She arrived at the home of Isaac and Maria Van Wagenen (Wagener? I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me - and ain't I a woman? A memorial stone in the Stone His...
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum: Congressman John Lewis
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Born: February 21, 1940 in Troy, Alabama. He was born on February 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama. His family were sharecroppers. He was a hard-working young man who overcame poverty and political disenfranchisement to educate himself. In John Lewis's own words:. He graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville and then received a bachelor's degree in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University. As a student, Lewis was very...
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum: Sarah C. Roberts
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Sarah C. Roberts. Sarah C. Roberts is a little known Freedom Fighter in American history. Roberts was only five years old when she and her father challenged the Boston Board of Education in 1849. The final decision in Roberts’ case, given by the Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw set up the ultimate precedence for the Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate but equal” ruling of 1896. Qa3669/is 200210/ai n9146075/pg 10. Posted by Mia Ragent. What is a Freedom Fighter?
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum: Medgar Evers
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Friday, May 9, 2008. Related Links and Info. The name of Medgar Evers has been immortalized in many ways but perhaps none more so grandly than in Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College, a unit of the City University of New York. Film: For Us the Living. Myrlie Evers’ book about her husband was made into a TV movie starring Howard Rollins. Statue of Evers in Jackson:. A statue of Medgar Evers was erected to honor him in his adopted hometown of Jackson on June 28, 1992. On the cab...
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum: May 2008
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Southern Freedom Fighter Museum. Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Born: February 21, 1940 in Troy, Alabama. He was born on February 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama. His family were sharecroppers. He was a hard-working young man who overcame poverty and political disenfranchisement to educate himself. In John Lewis's own words:. He graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville and then received a bachelor's degree in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University. As a student, Lewis was very...
