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Women of the civil rights movement talk about how it all started for them

Mattie Jones and Rhonda Mathies are local icons and legends from the Civil Rights moment. They made headlines for decades in their work for equal rights. Jones and Mathies have seen and experienced a ...
WLNS.com

Michigan civil rights activists remember the movement decades later

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It’s been more than six decades since the Civil Rights Movement started to change America, as a result of the hard work and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many ...
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Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death was announced Tuesday ...
Arkansas Times

Renowned Civil Rights reporter encourages journalists to work for larger cause

Jerry Mitchell, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and award-winning reporter whose work helped jail several white supremacists for ...
The Florida Times-Union

Civil Rights Trail: where movement and Jacksonville marked each other

Jacksonville has officially joined the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, with dozens of historical markers planned for the city. The markers will highlight significant locations from the Civil Rights Movement, ...
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Women of the Civil Rights movement talk about how it all started for them

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hayden Sorgenfrey/WHAS-TV Mattie Jones and Rhonda Mathies are local icons and legends from the Civil Rights moment. They made ...
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Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of Civil Rights Movement, dies at 86

my mindset was on freedom and my mindset was on the hero. The women especially the women soldier on the truth and carry your stuff. So I was not going to move that. More than 60 years after Claudette ...