“Every time, driving here (to Northwestern), my heart races,” said Benny Perelman, father of the late Weinberg freshman Daniel Perelman, who passed away almost two years ago in a solo flight crash. Daniel Perelman was on his second solo flight, a requirement for a private pilot license, when his plane crashed in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, on.
For all the fame he achieved during his lifetime, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. didn t forget the importance of communities like Orangeburg to the civil rights movement.
The founder of South Carolina’s first and only civil rights museum says Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a worldwide impact on the fight for justice and equality.
Sixty years ago in 1963, Orangeburg was the scene of some of the largest non-violent protests of the civil rights era. All-but forgotten today, these dramatic events are entirely absent