Tag "Civil Rights Movement"

Labor union marker to be unveiled today

    Labor union marker to be unveiled today

A fertile period of labor organizing in the tobacco industry during the 1940s fed into the Civil Rights Movement. A North Carolina Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated to workers

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Mississippi, Again!

    Mississippi, Again!

In 1969, while a graduate student at Notre Dame, I had a one night career on WNDU, the campus radio station. After I played Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam!,” I was

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Unlikely Civil Rights icon speaks

    Unlikely Civil Rights icon speaks

Dr. Bob Zellner, a white Southerner who played a part in the Civil Rights Movement, shared his story at Wake Forest University last week. Zellner was born and raised in

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Sit-in movement focus of school’s Read-in

    Sit-in movement focus of school’s Read-in

On Friday Feb. 8, students at Diggs-Latham Elementary School gathered in the gym for a “Read-In” event to commemorate the “Sit-In Movement” from the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Guests from the Anderson

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Preparing for the Battle Ahead

    Preparing for the Battle Ahead

Ministers Conference uses MLK Day for series of education/empowerment workshops Amid the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday

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