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1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died

Civil rights activist Robert Moses has died at the age of 86. Moses endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later ...
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Joseph McNeil, civil rights pioneer known for 1960 lunch counter sit-in protest, dies

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in ...
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From sit-ins to SNCC : the student civil rights movement in the 1960s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies

The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...
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Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young describes ‘dirty work’ of civil rights movement in new documentary

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Colvin, at age 15, was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for also refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
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A documentary's director on chronicling a pivotal moment in Tampa's civil rights history

"Triumph: Tampa's Untold Chapter in the Civil Rights Movement," produced by Tampa PBS station WEDU, tells the story of the ...