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THE visitors were old and young, black and white, from neighborhoods nearby and cities on the other side of the world. But on a recent morning in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, they were all stopped in their tracks by one particular display. “It was unnerving,” said Hollie Pich, 21, a white college student...
Despite its significant history, the Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library in Philadelphia is an unimposing structure – save for the two armed guards standing out front. Bedecked in Union blue, the guards leaned on their rifles Sunday ushering in patrons with a tip of the kepi. During the first Sunday of...
SEDALIA, Mo. • Several Sedalia residents say they were shocked to find fliers promoting the Ku Klux Klan on their property during Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The fliers were found Monday in several neighborhoods, mostly in eastern Sedalia. Sedalia police Lt. William Chapman says whoever distributed the fliers put them on windshields, or in...
WILLIAMSBURG – The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum will celebrate the the 205th anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee, Jan. 19, 1807, by featuring “The Lee Moment” program on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. The hour-long program will feature Southern Horizon, a Civil War-era band, as well as a narrative to...
Several Sedalia residents say they were shocked to find fliers promoting the Ku Klux Klan on their property during Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The fliers were found Monday in several neighborhoods, mostly in eastern Sedalia. Sedalia police Lt. William Chapman says whoever distributed the fliers put them on windshields, or in paper bags...
January 17, 2012|by Paula Morehouse, KY3 News | REPUBLIC, Mo. — Riley Collier loves flying the flag in the back of his pickup — the Confederate flag. “Just trying to express myself; it’s just like bumper stickers or anything of that nature,” said Collier. He ran into a big problem, though, when he took it...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state’s voter identification law. While rallies in previous years have often been focused on protesting the Confederate flag that flies outside the Statehouse near a memorial for Confederate soldiers,...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold. A circuit judge ruled last month that New Beginnings Baptist Church is the rightful owner...
