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The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides'

The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides'
After three days on a Greyhound bus, Lela Mae Williams was just an hour from her destination—Hyannis, Mass.—when she asked the bus driver to pull ...
Posted in Arkansas, civil rights, civil rights movement, freedom riders, little rock, segregation

Herman Boone, high school coach who inspired 'Remember the Titans,' dies at 84

Herman Boone, high school coach who inspired 'Remember the Titans,' dies at 84
Herman Boone, the Virginia high school football coach who inspired the 2000 film "Remember the Titans,'' has died. He was 84. Boone, portrayed by ...
Posted in denzel washington, football, herman boone, intergration, movies, remember the titans, segregation, sports

The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students
In the summer of 1955, administrators at the University of Texas at Austin had a problem: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education dec...
Posted in Brown v. Board of Education, civil rights, education, integration, racism, school and education, segregation, standardized testing, university of texas, voting rights act