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HCC to hold Black History Month presentation
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FREEPORT Highland Community College will hold the presentation None of Us Are Free Until All of Us Are Free: The Life and Activism of Fannie Lou Hamer, delivered by Treasure Shields Redmond, at 10 a.m. Feb. 16 via Zoom.
Redmond will use poetry with southern dialect, spirituals and gospel to tell the story of the civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer, a native of rural Mississippi and grassroots Civil Rights activist, helped to organize the 1964 Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and served as the vice-chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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The Friendship 9 gather in 2015 when their convictions from staging a sit-in at a Rock Hill diner in 1961 were dismissed. In 1961, a group of Friendship College students in Rock Hill, South Carolina, staged a sit-in at the McCrory s segregated lunch counter. Known as the Friendship 9 , they were immediately arrested and sentenced to 30 days on the chain gang.
Six years ago Thursday, that conviction was vacated. Charges were also dropped that day against four others who participated in the sit in, including Charles Jones of Charlotte, a Johnson C. Smith student at the time. Can you imagine? After all this time, here we are, people of the globe being respected, Charles Jones said then. We never thought that that would happen. We believed.
8 Steps That Paved the Way to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was landmark legislation that required decades of actionsâand setbacksâto achieve.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was landmark legislation that required decades of actionsâand setbacksâto achieve.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. When it was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, it was a major victory for the civil rights movement in its battle against unjust Jim Crow laws that marginalized Black Americans. It took years of activism, courage, and the leadership of Civil Rights icons from Martin Luther King, Jr. to the Little Rock Nine to bring the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to fruition. These are eight key steps that ultimately led to the Act’s adoption.
30 Days on a Chain Gang: 60 Years Later
Part 1: 30 Days on a Chain Gang: 60 Years Later By Steve Crump | January 28, 2021 at 10:07 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 8:57 PM
ROCK HILL, S.C. (WBTV) - It happened 60 years ago this coming Sunday.
Bold risks were aggressively carried out by a so-called new generation following one of our nationâs most memorable inaugurations.
WATCH ALL PARTS OF THE SPECIAL BELOW
Part 1: 30 Days on a Chain Gang: 60 Years Later
Part 2: 30 Days on a Chain Gang: 60 Years Later
Part 3: 30 Days on a Chain Gang: 60 Years Later
President John F. Kennedy took over the reins of power on Jan. 20 of 1961, and 11 days later on Jan. 31, all hell broke loose less than 30 miles south of Charlotte in Rock Hill, South Carolina.