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In gospel songs, clues to the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Root: How Juneteenth became the most popular annual celebration of black emancipation
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Black family progress has stalled since controversial 1965 study, report says
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50 years ago: Malcolm X, RFK brought heated rhetoric of civil rights fight to Columbia
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Theater where African-Americans could go freely
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1963 marked pivotal moment in integration of SC state parks
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Capitol march cemented constitutional rights
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Remembering the story behind a 1960s photograph
Dick Miles sported black frame glasses and slicked-back hair in 1965. But he was most distinctive as one of a handful of white men working to register black South Carolinians for the vote.
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Photos from The State's archives taken during the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s.
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Eastover woman was unsung heroine of civil rights era
More than a year before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, a young black woman from Eastover took a similar stand in Columbia.
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‘Eckerd’s first, then marching on the Capitol’: Recalling a rally
It was the black-and-white photographs that drew people in on Sunday.
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Civil rights activist Lennie Glover stood for freedom and justice in the face of violence
It happened in the blink of an eye. A young black man sitting at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Columbia was stabbed.
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Remembering the ‘sit-ins’: ‘The winds had to shift’
The protests in Columbia began in March 1960, a little over a month after four young men from North Carolina A&T sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., stirring college students to action throughout the South.
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Integration doomed Columbia hospital for blacks
When Benedict College student Lennie Glover was stabbed in 1961 in one of the few acts of violence during the Columbia lunch counter sit-ins, he was rushed to Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital for treatment.
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Landmark civil rights events, through the lens of the media
On March 15, 1960, six weeks after sit-in demonstrations started in Greensboro, N.C., to integrate lunch counters there, 425 people were arrested in Orangeburg in similar sit-in demonstrations.
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‘Zion was the hub. . . Zion was it’
When Mayor Steve Benjamin today formally unveils Columbia’s part in a seven-city commemoration of the year 1963, he will step in front of Zion Baptist Church, a sanctuary that served as both the launch point and the conclusion of dozens of civil rights protests and demonstrations in the city.
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50 years after the end of segregation, Columbia ‘is on its way’
Mayor Steve Benjamin Thursday formally launched a commemoration of the year 1963, joining six other Southern cities in looking back at the civil rights struggle and assessing racial progress 50 years later.
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Columbia commemorates fall of segregation
The city of Columbia is joining six other Southern cities in commemorating the pivotal year of 1963, when segregation’s barriers finally began to fall amid protests and demonstrations, court battles and, in many places, unrestrained violence.
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Bolton: Dedication of BTW auditorium sparks revival
THE DEDICATION of the renovated Booker T. Washington High School auditorium last week quickly transformed into a revival, as one person after another thanked God for preserving the last remaining building of the storied institution that educated thousands of black students during segregation.
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