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BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (TOPEKA, KANSAS) | Topeka, Kansas, is home to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, located at the restored site of Monroe Elementary School, one of four segregated black elementary schools in Topeka that was part of the landmark Supreme Court case.

Civil rights tourism starts to regain footing in Atlanta

July 12, 2021 at 4:48 p.m.

ATLANTA — Tom Houck, who spent his younger days chauffeuring Martin Luther King Jr. around town, is getting back behind the wheel — figuratively. Fifteen months after the raconteur shut...

Georgia museum would honor blacks who fought in Civil War, North or South

June 23, 2019 at 11:05 a.m.

In the months following the end of the Civil War, two units of black Union soldiers were assigned to the burned-out husk of Atlanta to keep the strained peace. Former...

#Iftheygunnedmedown: Social media with a message

June 22, 2019 at 3:01 p.m.

In the newfound arena of social media as activism, few hashtags have generated as much buzz as "IfTheyGunnedMeDown," which has been circulating around Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Still, the trending...

Dora McDonald: 1925 – 2007

August 21, 2021 at 4:32 p.m.

From the moment that Dora McDonald became Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal secretary in 1960, she was entrusted with his secrets and counted on to look after his family...

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