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Wed., May 1, 2013 3:00am
Savannah became one of the first police forces in the South to desegregate its police force. It happened in 1947. Among the first nine black officers hired on May first of that year, John White is the last surviving member.
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Thu., April 4, 2013 2:22pm
Thursday marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. In his hometown of Atlanta a wreath will be laid outside the church he once led. Church leaders are also challenging youth to 50 days of nonviolence.
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Thu., April 4, 2013 9:00am
A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Lewis says the civil rights icon is to receive the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage Thursday from Georgia Tech. The ceremony is taking place on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Thu., February 7, 2013 6:44pm
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Holder told students at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta on Thursday that there are too many guns in the hands of the wrong people. He said President Obama is pushing for universal background checks.
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Wed., January 30, 2013 12:01pm
Emory University's library plans to exhibit materials from the archives of a civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The exhibition of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's materials opens Feb. 21 at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
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Tue., January 1, 2013 3:33pm
Friends are calling Lillian Lewis an ordinary person with extra-ordinary talents. The wife of Congressman John Lewis died Monday at Emory University hospital at the age of 73.
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Wed., December 19, 2012 1:00pm
A funeral has been scheduled for Jesse Hill, a prominent Atlanta civil rights leader and businessman who died Monday at the age of 86. As a civil rights leader, Hill helped collect bail money for incarcerated demonstrators, worked in voter registration initiatives and was a co-founder of the Atlanta Inquirer — Atlanta's first black newspaper.
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Tue., December 18, 2012 8:44am
Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader who helped start Atlanta's first black community newspaper in 1960, has died. He was 86.
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Sun., November 11, 2012 3:00pm
The new director, Emory sociology professor Tyrone Forman, is a renowned scholar of social change, race and ethnic relations.
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Tue., October 16, 2012 2:41pm
Civil Rights icon Margaret Dudley died Sunday night. She was 79. On March 7, 1965 Dudley, a native of Macon, was injured in the 54-mile Selma-to-Montgomery march for Alabama voting rights.
