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A judge in South Carolina has erased the records of seven Black men arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter. About 150 people packed the courtroom for the ceremony Friday.
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“R” is for Rock Hill Movement. Following the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery and the 1960 lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, African Americans in Rock Hill took the lead in energizing the civil rights movement in South Carolina.
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“R” is for Rock Hill Movement. Following the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery and the 1960 lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, African Americans in Rock Hill took the lead in energizing the civil rights movement in South Carolina.
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“C” is for Charleston Riot (1919). The Charleston Riot of 1919 was the earliest major incident in a nationwide outbreak of racial violence that became known as the “Red Summer.”
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“C” is for Charleston Riot (1919). The Charleston Riot of 1919 was the earliest major incident in a nationwide outbreak of racial violence that became known as the “Red Summer.”
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“B” is for Black Codes (1865-1866). In 1865 with little directions coming from Washington and with the South in economic and social chaos, the former states of the Confederacy drew up “Black Codes” to clarify the standing of African Americans.
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“B” is for Black Codes (1865-1866). In 1865 with little directions coming from Washington and with the South in economic and social chaos, the former states of the Confederacy drew up “Black Codes” to clarify the standing of African Americans.
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“S” is for Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. (b. 1944). Civil rights activist, educator.
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“S” is for Sellers, Cleveland Louis, Jr. (b. 1944). Civil rights activist, educator.
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“R” is for Robinson, Bernice Violanthe (1914-1994). Educator, civil rights activist. The workshops that Bernice Violanthe Robinson created helped transform the political and economic status of thousands of disenfranchised Blacks in the American South.