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Realtors’ association working to display historic lunch counter in Rock Hill

The lunch counter and seats at the former McCrory’s five-and-dime in Rock Hill, site of several civil rights protests, may soon be on public display again.

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50 years later, recalling the young ‘foot soldiers’ of civil rights

In May 1963, thousands of Birmingham school children faced police dogs, fire hoses and possible arrest to demonstrate against segregation. Now, 50 years later, those who were part of what became known as the “Children’s March” say they don’t want their story to be forgotten...
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US House honors ‘four little girls’ killed in Birmingham church bombing

The House voted this week to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a seminal moment in the civil rights movement.
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Decades after King’s death, a struggle continues

Decades after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death here, some of the striking sanitation workers who marched with him are again fighting for their jobs.
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Vice president Biden, black leaders lead re-enactment of voting rights march

The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americansâ€™ votes havenâ€™t stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act added millions to Southern voter rolls.
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Odyssey of Nat Turner's Bible -- from hidden in closet to featured at D.C.'s newest museum

Nat Turner is a revered figure to many African-Americans, a tangible example of someone who defied slavery's shackles.
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New museum will celebrate both the pain and triumph of African-American history

It is a blight on American history that history cannot ignore: The exploitation and enslavement of black people for hundreds of years. It will be the challenge of a new museum in the nationâ€™s capital to tell that story, however uncomfortable the subject might be to some, because...
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Lawmakers push to honor 4 girls killed in 1963 Birmingham bombing

On this yearâ€™s 50th anniversary of a 1963 Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that became a key moment in the civil rights movement, a group of lawmakers is seeking to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the four black schoolgirls who died in the explosion.