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Tuscaloosa leaders plan for new Civil Rights venue

Tuscaloosa leaders plan for new Civil Rights venue
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60th Anniversary Event to Commemorate Tuscaloosa s Bloody Tuesday

Here are the details on the 60th Anniversary of Tuscaloosa’s Bloody Tuesday, with a special event honoring this pivotal moment in history.

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How I teach Black history in Alabama: Find unsung trailblazers

How I teach Black history in Alabama: Find unsung trailblazers
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The Skanner News - Separate Water Fountains for Black People Still Stand in the South – Thinly Veiled Monuments to the Long, Strange, Dehumanizing History of Segregation

In Ellisville, Mississippi, for instance, two water fountains remain standing in front of the Jones County Courthouse. When they were first built in the late 1930s, the words “white” and “colored” designated which fountain was to be used by which race. Over the years, those words were covered up by different ceremonial plaques. But for some Black Ellisville residents, the fountains still stir up painful memories of second-class citizenship.

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Separate water fountains for Black people still stand in the South – thinly veiled monuments to the long, strange, dehumanizing history of segregation

Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow South still haunt modern memory.

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