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The magic Bullittnew

"It’s not just green fatigue. It’s fatigue. There’s a whole generation of Americans now rising through the ranks that are as depressed about the effectiveness of government as they were back in the 1960s."
Colorado Springs Independent  |  Matthew Schniper  |  04-05-2012  |  Environment

Milwaukee Marched for Justicenew

Anyone living in Milwaukee in the '60s and old enough to be aware will recall a time of sharp tension. This story is recounted with lucid scholarship in The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee.
Shepherd Express  |  David Luhrssen  |  05-15-2009  |  Nonfiction

Arkansas Nuns Recall Admitting Black Students in 1952 for DVD Projectnew

Before any other school in the state, as far as they know, the nuns of St. Scholastica monastery invited a couple of girls who'd recently graduated from an all-black Catholic grammar school to enroll in their previously all-white girls high school. Now Fort Smith Historical Society members are interviewing the surviving nuns from that era and preserving the interviews on DVD.
Arkansas Times  |  Jennifer Barnett Reed  |  09-05-2008  |  Race & Class

Remembering Rev. Louis Colemannew

"I can't think of a time I didn't know Louis Coleman," says Raoul Cunningham, president of the Louisville NAACP. The pair grew up together and while Cunningham says he participated in Louisville's sit-in movement as a teenager in the 1960s, Coleman didn’t join the civil rights movement until later in life.
LEO Weekly  |  Phillip M. Bailey  |  07-14-2008  |  Civil Liberties

Slouching Towards Equalitynew

Looking back at the Little Rock Public Schools' desegregation crisis, 50 years later.
Arkansas Times  |  Johanna Miller Lewis  |  09-21-2007  |  Race & Class

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