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From sit-ins at Nashville's lunch counters to world-renowned musical performances, several people and places in the city have left a mark on history.

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill draws a connection between shredded chicken sandwiches and the glassmaking industry.

John Marshall High School alumni are raising money to honor former teacher and Oklahoma City civil rights icon, Clara Luper.

The informant said the klan's initial plan had been sort of theatrical. they planned to have a white woman pretend to have been attacked by young black men who were trying to desegregate the lunch counters. they said that the plan was to, the informant said the plan was to get this woman near to where the sit-in demonstration was happening and then she would collapse and say she had been attacked and that's why she collapsed. and they thought that would give the klansmen all the cover they'd need to open up the gates of hel in downtown jacksonville. in the end though that was their plan they d...

Hundreds of white men running through the downtown chasing people down and beating them with ax handles, after that initial, frenzied attack, the rioting in jacksonville actually continued for two more nights. the "florida town union" the white paper of record did not see fit to mention it. it was just a hurricane of violence. in the end, the kids, the young people who organized those protests at the lunch counters, they won. they started those protests like i said in august, 1960. by the spring of 1961, jacksonville had quietly integrated its downtown lunch counters. and it took longer but th...