Sacramento Observer
SACRAMENTO – Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine students who desegregated Little Rock Arkansas’ Central High School in the 1950s, said she and her young civil rights counterparts indeed went through a tumultuous time. But she also expressed the vile and unpleasant harassment their parents had to suffer too in some aspects of [...]
RALEIGH – In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a significant moment in the civil rights movement, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to all members of the Wilmington Ten. “I have decided to grant these pardons because the more facts I have learned about the [...]
NATIONWIDE – “1963: How the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement Changed America and the World,” features a chronological account of some of the major events from that pivotal year in Birmingham’s history. — Photo/The Birmingham News As a teenager growing up in Philadelphia, Barnett Wright learned about the bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and [...]
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