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Celebrating Black History Month: Black History of Highland County Pictured are members of the Lincoln School Class of 1910. (Photos courtesy of the Highland County Historical Society) Highland County is referenced in this excerpt from an anti-slavery newspaper, The Philanthropist, in July 1841. • • The following is an excerpt of a Black history project currently underway by Highland County Historical Society members Kati Burwinkel, Myra Phillips and John Glaze.
Black History of Highland County
Highland County was first settled in the New Market area around 1803. Prior to that, this area was home to various Native American tribes, including the Shawnee. It wasn’t long before early settlers brought along their slaves and Highland County’s Blac
National Civil Rights Museum president leaves mark on site
by John Beifuss, Memphis Commercial Appeal, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 30, 2021 10:55 am EDT
Last Updated Jan 30, 2021 at 10:58 am EDT
MEMPHIS, Tenn. In November 2014, Terri Lee Freeman became president of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
Two years later, the Smithsonian Institution opened its much-heralded National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington.
The following year saw the arrival of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson.
In April of the next year came the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.
Youth groups from Grace Lutheran, First Congressional and St. James Episcopal churches celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day today by bagging family-size servings of beans and rice for those in need in the community.
Civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. smiles during a talk with U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, not pictured, in this undated photo. The federal holiday that celebrates the iconic civil rights leader is observed Jan. 18. (CNS/Yoichi Okamoto, courtesy of LBJ Library)
When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, I was a 10-year-old boy living in an all-white Brooklyn neighborhood. Except when my parents took me on the subway, I never saw a Black person. I had heard of King, but he wasn t part of my narrow world. Then, in 1958, my father was transferred to New Orleans and that world changed overnight.