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US politics
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 week ago

Bay Area man stood against segregation at a pool protest in 1962, igniting change in North Carolina

Raleigh's Pullen Park pool was demolished and replaced with a plaque commemorating its segregated history and the 1962 integration protest by Black and white teenagers.
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Civil rights pioneer says after almost 70 years, story of the Little Rock Nine still 'resonates' | CBC News

At 84, Minnijean Brown-Trickey says she has "done it all." Long before her work as an anti-racist educator and environmental campaigner in Canada, she demonstrated enormous courage as one of the Little Rock Nine a group of Black teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. Minnijean Brown was 15 years old when she decided that she wanted to attend the all-white school, which was closer to her home, instead of Horace Mann High School
Social justice
Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Steven Towns' Quilted Works Emphasize Black Joy as Resistance in 'Safer Waters'

Stephen Towns' mixed-media textiles celebrate Black midcentury leisure at segregated Southern resorts, portraying communal joy, childlike innocence, and leisure as resistance.
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