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News Articles: segregation

Charles Person, a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, passed away peacefully at his home in Fayetteville, Georgia, at the age of 82. (Kerri Phox/The Atlanta Voice)

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Charles Person, youngest Freedom Rider, passes away. Legacy lives on through Freedom Riders Training Academy

We honor the life and legacy of Mr. Charles Person, who passed away on January 8. As the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, he played a pivotal role in challenging segregation and advancing civil rights.

January 10, 2025
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  • The Atlanta Voice
Josiah "Jazz" Watts holds copies of the petitions with signatures requesting a referendum to repeal the new zoning ordinance affecting Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island. Credit: Susan Catron/The Current GA

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Petition starts process for county-wide zoning vote on Sapelo’s Hogg Hummock

Community groups in McIntosh County filed a petition in probate court Tuesday to force a county-wide vote on a controversial zoning change on Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock. 

July 10, 2024
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  • Mary Landers
Maya Peters-Greno uses a small brush to clean the grime away from a recently recovered headstone in the Penfield African American Cemetery in Greene County.

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  • History

At the birthplace of Mercer University, a brick wall frames a mystery of racial division

A relatively newly remembered burial ground yields more questions than answers as universities piece together missing links in the history of Georgia’s enslaved populations.

May 08, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
A photo from the Leland High School yearbook.

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Atlanta filmmaker explores racial integration of schools in his hometown

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. A new documentary explores what happened when one Mississippi community finally integrated its public schools in 1969.

September 07, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
One exhibit inside the new International African American Museum in Charleston , South Carolina, describes the accomplishments of Black leaders in health care, including nurse - midwife Maude Callen, who delivered hundreds of infants across the South Carolina Lowcountry during a time when segregation limited access to medical care for many African Americans.

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  • News

New Charleston museum nods to historical roots of U.S. health disparities

A $120 million International African American Museum opened this week in Charleston, S,C. The galleries allow visitors to step back in history at Gadsden’s Wharf, where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in America, the genesis of generations of health disparities.

June 27, 2023
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  • Lauren Sausser
Lt. Frank J. Crawford of Detroit, Michigan, as the Regimental plans and training officer, is giving his men instructions in combat maneuvers.

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This WWII battle wasn't against Nazis. It was between Black and white GIs in England

It's the 80th anniversary of a little-known battle — by Black U.S. soldiers against segregation in the military. They were convicted of mutiny. Villagers in England want them exonerated.

June 21, 2023
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  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Fatima Al-Kassab

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  • Race

The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role in the Montgomery bus boycott. But Parks was just one of many women who organized for years. In this episode, those women tell their own story.

March 22, 2023
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  • LA Johnson,
  • Karen Grigsby Bates,
  • and 4 more
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 ,
  • and 1 more
The Montpelier Station railroad depot was built in 1910. The U.S. Postal Service has closed the small Virginia post office over concerns about its location inside the depot, which also serves as a museum about racial segregation.

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  • National

A post office closes over an historic exhibit showing signs for 'White' and 'Colored'

The U.S. Postal Service has closed a small Virginia post office over concerns about its location inside a historic train depot that also serves as a museum about racial segregation.

August 17, 2022
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  • The Associated Press

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Georgia Tech, MIT researchers develop tool for increasing racial integration in schools

Researchers at Georgia Tech and MIT have developed a tool that redraws school attendance boundaries to both reduce racial segregation and travel times. 

July 12, 2022
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  • Peter Biello

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  • Race

The Story Of J.P. Morgan's 'Personal Librarian' — And Why She Chose To Pass As White

For the Code Switch podcast, we talked to authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray to discuss The Personal Librarian — the fictionalized account of the very real Belle da Costa Greene.

August 31, 2021
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  • Karen Grigsby Bates
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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  • Obituaries

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
Bombing victim Sarah Collins Rudolph, pictured in 2013, argues that Ku Klux Klan members who attacked the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 were "inspired and motivated by then-Gov. [George] Wallace's racist rhetoric."

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  • Race

Alabama Gov. Apologizes To Surviving '5th Girl' Of 1963 KKK Bombing

"There should be no question that Ms. Collins Rudolph and the families of those who perished ... suffered an egregious injustice that has yielded untold pain and suffering over the ensuing decades."

September 30, 2020
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  • Vanessa Romo
The wraps come off the marker for the "Girls Of The Leesburg Stockade" in Lee County in September.

New Historical Marker For Girls Illegally Jailed During Civil Rights Era

Until recently, you could have probably ridden by the Leesburg Stockade in southwest Georgia without noticing it or having any clue about the civil...

October 18, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
The original HOLC map of Macon.

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  • Race

The Roots And Effects Of Housing Segregation — And Why It Persists In Georgia Today

A report by financial news and content company, 24-7 Wall Street, identifies the 25 most-segregated cities in America. Four are in Georgia, and one of...

August 08, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 2 more
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