Joyce Cusack, now 82, participated in a 1960 lunch counter sit-in in DeLand, Florida, at the age of 17 to protest segregation, inspired by the Greensboro Four.
In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...
A former state representative participated in a DeLand lunch counter sit-in to protest against segregation 65 years ago this week. In 1960, Joyce Cusack, now 82, was a 17-year-old Senior at Euclid ...
To young and old today who want to make a change, Rita Omokha proclaims, “Tell yourself you can — and watch yourself prove it ...
The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally.
Protestors clash with police in Kolkata over SSC recruitment scam, demanding segregation of worthy and unworthy candidates.
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - From 1959 to 1963, three protests — now known as the Biloxi wade-ins — were held on Coast beaches to ...
Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...
On the anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre, the International African American Museum in Charleston put a new item on ...
It had long turned Black children and their parents away from its rides, and it took over nine weeks of picketing — and a sit-in on the carousel — to end the segregation. MORE: What to expect ...