Highlighting History: 8th of May Celebration at a historic Columbus cemetery wtva.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wtva.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Emancipation celebration that pre-dates Juneteenth continues in Columbus - Home - WCBI TV wcbi.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wcbi.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Our View: 1964's Freedom Summer, ignored by this paper at the time, is a story worth preserving cdispatch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cdispatch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Almost 60 years ago, 20-year-old Marvin Griffin joined the efforts of the Council of Federated Organizations during Freedom Summer. He and his cohorts fought to help Black citizens overcome poll taxes and literacy tests and register to vote, while facing harassment, threats and possible arrest.
It seems self-evident today, but the most interesting aspect of the 181-year-old Friendship Cemetery is not the headstones and grave markers but what lies beneath them.