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'Sesame Street' co-creator Lloyd Morrisett dies at 93

Sparked in part by the civil rights movement, the show aimed to teach children basic skills. His hope was to "help those children who would otherwise not succeed in school, do better," he said.

January 25, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde
Civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X are shown in a meeting during the 1960s.

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200+ movie extras needed for Disney+ series on MLK and Malcolm X

Movie cameras are returning to Macon later this month as Disney+ films an original civil rights era series about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

January 16, 2023
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  • Liz Fabian
This undated portrait shows Emmett Till, who was killed in Mississippi in 1955.

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Emmett Till and his mother honored with the Congressional Gold Medal

The 14-year-old was killed by two white men in 1955 after a white woman accused him of flirting with her. The medal will be on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

December 24, 2022
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  • Giulia Heyward
Squat one-story buildings surrounded by chain link fence comprise a former motel.

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Georgia's latest 'Places in Peril' include historic properties statewide

The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation has announced its annual list of threatened historic buildings.

November 18, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
Jalyn Hall plays Emmett Till and Danielle Deadwyler is his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in <em>Till. </em>

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Emmett Till is known for his death. A new film about his mother also honors his life

In 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy was lynched in Mississippi. Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose insistence on an open-casket funeral helped ignite the civil rights movement.

October 14, 2022
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  • Justin Chang
Author John Pruitt and his latest novel, Tell It True

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Political Rewind: Author, anchor John Pruitt documents a Klan-involved murder in 'Tell It True'

Friday on Political Rewind: In 1964, two Klansmen killed Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, a Black veteran, near the Broad River Bridge in Athens. John Pruitt, then a 22-year-old cameraman for WSB-TV, covered the case. He documents that experience in his novel Tell It True.

October 07, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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Civil rights leader Clara Luper poses with a photograph from her scrapbooks at a community center in Oklahoma City, Okla., in August 1983.

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How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement

One of the first lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement took place in Oklahoma City in 1958. This weekend, the city remembers the protest and its organizer, Clara Luper.

August 19, 2022
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  • Destinee Adams
Xernona Clayton, a key aide to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King who helped sustain the civil rights movement in the 1960s, is interviewed in her offices at the Trumpet Foundation in Atlanta, on June 3, 2022.

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Civil rights advocate Xernona Clayton is still 'fearless'

A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped sustain the civil rights movement in the 1960s says she's deeply saddened by the hate crimes seeking to terrorize people across America. But Xernona Clayton has been working for racial harmony since the movement began, and refuses to accept mass killings as routine.

June 08, 2022
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Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., speaks about the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which was named after a 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.

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Senate passes anti-lynching bill and sends federal hate crime legislation to Biden

The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which sets prison terms of up to 30 years, has been more than a century in the making.

March 08, 2022
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  • Peter Granitz
Mrs. King stands with her husband, Slater King and their three children who witnessed the police assault.

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Children Of Civil Rights Activist Seek Justice Decades Later

The children of civil rights activist Marion King are seeking justice for their mother, who suffered police violence against her in 1962 that they say resulted in a miscarriage. 

September 15, 2021
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  • Amanda Andrews
Headshots of Andrew Aydin and John Lewis next to the cover of comic book.

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Political Rewind: Story Of John Lewis Illustrated In Pages Of New Graphic Novel

Monday on Political Rewind: It has been more than a year since the passing of civil rights icon and Georgia Congressman John Lewis. And now, the story of Lewis’ life, activism and political career continue in a new series of graphic novels. Run is a sequel to March, a 2013 series illustrating Lewis's early days in the civil rights movement.

August 30, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
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A young C.T. Vivian preaches in front of a sheriff officer in this black and white photo from

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Political Rewind: New Memoir Of Civil Rights Leader C.T. Vivian Chronicles A Life 'In The Action'

Thursday on Political Rewind: In the midst of the pandemic that gripped the nation, two of the country’s greatest civil rights leaders died on the same day. One of them, Rep. John Lewis, was a man whose name was known around the world. The other was C.T. Vivian, whose courage and visionary leadership was only equaled by the humility he displayed by rarely seeking the spotlight. It is his story we’ll tell today.

May 13, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
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Protest in Macon during Civil Rights era

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Meet The 'Conquering Heroes' Who Helped Desegregate Macon's Buses

The boycott started with the goal of desegregating the buses and having the bus company hire Black bus drivers, and it lasted three weeks. The boycott ended with a ruling from Federal Judge W. A. Bootle ordering the desegregation of Bibb Transit Co. buses.

February 02, 2021
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  • Jenna Eason
U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, in this November 1960, file photo. Lucille Bridges, Ruby's mother, died Tuesday at the age of 86.

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Lucille Bridges, Mother Of Anti-Segregation Icon Ruby Bridges, Dies At 86

In 1960, she braved death threats and racial epithets to accompany her daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, desegregating the school.

November 11, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman
In this May 28, 1957, photo, Rev. Robert S. Graetz, center, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, left, talk outside the witness room during a bombing trial in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgomery Bus Boycott, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. He was 92.

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Robert Graetz, Only White Pastor To Back Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dies At 92

Robert and his wife Jeannie Graetz faced bombs and KKK death threats for their role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but their Black friends and neighbors protected them.

September 22, 2020
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  • Tom Gjelten
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