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- Shades Of Black And White This lens is written based on events in my life that led me to the place I am today. The journey was often times painful and collected its fair share of baggage along the way. The end result was worth every painful step. Please be my guest and read...
- Growing Up in Pendleton SC in 1950's and 60's Pendleton SC Town Council woman Sandra Gantt was asked to speak to the Leadership Pendleton Class of 2009. She was asked to tell how it was to grow up Pendleton. I was so glad that I was able to hear Sandra's talk. She was so interesting and enlighte...
- Jackie Robinson: The Story of an American Hero On April 15th, 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped onto a baseball diamond in Brooklyn, New York. Photo credit: J.R. Eyerman Buy at AllPosters.com That was a few years after African-American soldiers came home from defending America and freedom i...
- Discrimination Discrimination still exists. When I mention word discrimination - you probably think about dicrimination at job, on the street... no I want to talk about child discrimination. You know... There is a discrimination when you are not even born. I mean...
- Rosa Parks Rosa Parks started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the turning points in the American civil rights movement.
- The Greensboro Sit-ins and the Civil Rights Movement I watched the inauguration of Barack Obama at home with my children. It was an amazing day, as I think back on all that has changed in my lifetime. I grew up in Greensboro, NC. My mother was pregnant with me when the sit-ins at the Greensboro Woolwo...
- Bert Williams Egbert Austin Williams (November 12, 1875 - March 4, 1922) was the pre-eminent Black entertainer of his era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920. Willi...
- Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson is a civil rights activist and Baptist minister. Jesse Jackson plays a major role in the movement for equal rights, was a presidential candidate and a very promonent representative for the black community in the United States.
- The Clinton Twelve It didn't happen first in Little Rock, Arkansas - the real, and sadly ignored, integration history was made earlier in the little town of Clinton, Tennessee.
