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Memoirs of the Segregated South

Helen Davey | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Governor George Wallace, Eric Holder, The Help Novel, Civil Rights Movement, Kathryn Stockett, Novel the Help, Kathryn Stockett the Help, Civil Rights, Black History Month, Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, Segregation, Segregated South, Healthy Living News
Helen Davey

Admittedly, I come from a lily-white family, English on both sides. However, I believe that a person doesn't have to be black to feel the effects of racism -- a point that Kathryn Stockett makes very well in her novel, "The Help."

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Civil Rights Movement Reassembles to Ask: What's Next?

Saul Landau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John Lewis, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Alabama, Voting Rights Bill, Governor George Wallace, Bob Moses, Sncc, Harry Belafonte, Eric Holder, Rev, Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, Civl-Rights-Movement, Segregation, Julian Bond, Tennessee, Lyndon Johnson, Mississippi, David Harris, James Lawson, North Carolina, Mario Savio, Politics News
Saul Landau

On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's. The white waitresses ignored th...

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