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2009. Conducted by Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture. The American Folk Life Center at the library of congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. My parents were walter b. Ghaiaither and fannie b. Little gaither. Gray fall was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina. And my mom and dad met while they were students at Friendship Junior College in rock hill, South Carol...

One of the most influential figures of the civil rights movement is also, unfortunately, one of the most overlooked. Ruby Hurley was an advocate and activist best known for the incredible work she did through the

A film about the brutal 1955 racist attack on Emmett Till has been a long time coming. Its director talks about overcoming Hollywood’s reluctance, on-set therapy and her ‘non-negotiables’

Mother of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 defied the fear imposed by generations of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans Movie Review Film: Till Director: Chinonye Chukwu Producers: Keith Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Levine, Michael Reilly, Frederick Zollo Writers: Chinonye Chukwu, Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp Star Actors: Danielle Deadwyler…

Businessman and civil rights advocate Arthur “Man” Whitfield Stanley, Sr. was born in Darlington, S.C., on August 19, 1914, to Mrs. Martha Stanley Hobday and Mr. Willie Gandy.

Women of the Movement it tells a story that has become so well-known and puts a new spin on it, it shows how the strength and strategy of one woman helped to birth a movement.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama is reconsidering its decision last week to retain the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan on a campus building while adding the name of the school's first Black student.

A University of Alabama building will share the names of a Klan leader and its first Black student

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A University of Alabama building named for a former governor who led the Ku Klux Klan a century ago will also bear the name of the first Black person to attend the school, trustees decided.

Find out more about the real NAACP Ruby Hurley and Medgar Evers who are portrayed in the Emmett Till story in 'Women of the Movement.'