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5 religious facts you might not know about Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass, whose seven-foot bronze statue was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday (June 19), is known as the father of the civil rights movement. But the 19th-century abolitionist and former slave was also a licensed preacher.

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Civil rights conference set for June 20-21 at Westwood High in Blythewood

Richland 2 will be the host of “The Desegregation of South Carolina Colleges and Schools Conference” June 20-21 at Westwood High School.
RELIGION

The Root: How Juneteenth became the most popular annual celebration of black emancipation

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between...
RELIGION

In gospel songs, clues to the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.

When Jonathan Rieder was growing up in Philadelphia during the 1950s, infatuated with rockabilly and rhythm and blues, he sometimes rose early enough to inadvertently tune in to the Sunday morning gospel show on WHAT. Those worship songs sounded different from his favorites, which aimed more at ...
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Bill would honor Buffalo Soldiers' role in parks

In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them America's first park rangers.
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Black family progress has stalled since controversial 1965 study, report says

Many of the same social problems highlighted in a landmark 1965 study on black family structure have only worsened over the last 48 years and are now causing similar hardship for white and Hispanic families.
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Beaufort church recalls Tubman's daring 1863 raid

On June 2, 1863, using her knowledge as a Union Army scout and spy, Harriet Tubman led a raid up the Combahee River, freeing nearly 800 slaves.
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Feisty civil rights activist Will Campbell dies at 88

The Rev. Will D. Campbell, a Baptist minister and early white civil rights activist, as well as best-selling writer and folksy raconteur, died June 3 in Nashville, Tenn. He was 88.
CIVIL RIGHTS IN COLUMBIA

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.