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This week on The Reading Life: Wayne Wiegand, co-author with Shirley Wiegand, of “The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil…
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When Americans are taught the story of school desegregation, they learn about the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of…
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As part of the NOLA Resistance project, The Historic New Orleans Collection has recorded conversations with several former members of the Congress of…
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When Ruby Bridges walked through an angry crowd to attend her newly integrated school in 1960, there was a white girl sitting in another empty classroom…
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The civil rights movement witnessed students becoming teachers as they propelled social change. New Orleanian and lifelong activist Raphael Cassimere was…
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School desegregation was a major turning point of the civil rights movement, especially here in New Orleans. In this edition of NOLA Life Stories, we meet…
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The Historic New Orleans Collection has embarked on a project to record oral histories from activists of the civil rights movement. In this edition of…
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Each week, American Routes brings you Shortcuts, a sneak peek of the upcoming show. This week, it’s the second installment of our program all about Bob…
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The March on Washington, the bus boycotts, and sit-ins across the country: these are all images of the civil rights movement that we may familiar with.…
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Bobby Grier was the first African-American to play in the Sugar Bowl. As a member of the Pittsburgh Panthers, Grier played against Georgia Tech on January…