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Ordinary people can do extradorinary things


Fred Gray, “Chief Counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement, is still in the fight
In this “Ordinary People Can do Extraordinary Things” profile, we look at a man who at age 94 is still doing the extraordinary work that...


Alice Dunnigan, Black journalist blazed trails through the Civil Rights Era
“Without black writers, the world would perhaps never have known of the chicanery, shenanigans, and buffoonery employed by those in high...


Charles Person, an original Freedom Rider, believed that change begins with the young
“Make the country better for those yet unborn who will never know the seat you took, the ride you rode, the risk you accepted, the fare...


Willie Pearl Mackey King and her critical role in the “Letter to Birmingham Jail”
When we consider the broad and multi-faceted Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s, a considerable number of figures are...
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