Page 10 - Colored School News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

HOUSTON – Before the Civil Rights Movement and the integration of public schools, and even predating World War II, there was the Chickasaw County Colored School.

During Black History Month, learn the impact Hudson Valley residents, trailblazers have had on our communities thru public art installations.

Ethel Tompkins was at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Hoxie School District integration when she was asked a simple, but poignant question. She…

Fulbright’s apologists like to claim that the senator’s sins during the Central High Crisis were ones of omission rather than commission — that he played no significant role in stoking segregationist outrage, but rather simply did little to stop it. But they are wrong. As an author and signatory of the Southern Manifesto, Fulbright provided a false cover of legitimacy to segregationists and emboldened them to defy the Brown decision. 

A retired Milligan University professor has completed work on a book that he hopes will call attention to an important figure in Johnson City’s development as a regional hub for education, faith and medicine: Dr. Hezekiah B. Hankal. “Hezekiah Hankal took it upon himself to uplift our community’s African Americans during the era when Jim Crow laws severely restricted their lives and their opportunities to get ahead in the world,” Donald Shaffer said recently. “Dr. Hankal had never been a slave. But when freedom came for the slaves, he soon married one, and he devoted t...