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.
The parties reached a settlement in February 1959. The Harlem 9’s children would not enroll in the schools for which they were zoned. Nor would they be able to engage in “open choice” – the parents’ ...
SC State University marked 57 years since the Orangeburg Massacre as survivors and families remembered those killed and the ...
Feb. 8 marks 57 years since the Orangeburg Massacre of 1968, when South Carolina Highway Patrol officers opened fire on a ...