Dedicated to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, a new documentary told in her own words now streaming and an educational website featuring a K-12 curriculum.
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"I just like being a person who's treated like a human being. [And] I'm still asking, is this America? I want to know, is this America if politics is so important that it doesn't care about human beings?" - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
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On Oct. 5, 2012, a life-size statue was unveiled honoring Fannie Lou Hamer at her Memorial Garden in Ruleville, MS. The statue stands near Hamer & her husband's final resting place.
Learn how the garden and park came to be:
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John William “Willie” “Bud” Rogan was one of the world's tallest people. Reportedly born on February 12, 1867 in Gallatin, TN, Rogan was the tallest man in the world at that time at 8 feet 9 inches.
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Boxing greats at the grave of Joe Louis at Arlington National Cemetery in May 1986. (l to r Michael Spinks; Jersey Joe Walcott; Joe Frazier; Muhammed Ali; Sugar Ray Leonard and Joseph Louis Barrow, Jr., Joe Louis's son.
“We want to sit down like anyone else.” On this day in 1960, MLK joined students & local activists in a nonviolent protest against segregation at Rich’s department store in downtown Atlanta. He was among 52 people arrested for refusing to leave.
Brittney McWhite made the heartbreaking decision to remove her children, 11-year-old London Marie and 14-year-old Wadale, from life support after they drowned at a Memorial Day pool party in New Jersey. Both kids suffered irreversible brain damage. Their mother hopes their story serves as a warning to other families.
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BREAKING: The Mississippi Attorney General’s office cleared the officer who shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart in Senatobia in June, according to a news release Monday. ow.ly/JNS750ZZ3Ja
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On this day in 1960, 52 people, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were arrested in downtown Atlanta after refusing to leave their seats at segregated department store lunch counters.
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The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi attorney general’s office announced mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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A black store owner marks his store with the words "SOUL BROTHER" to avoid having it looted during the Detroit riots of 1967
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On this day in 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested after thousands conducted mass sit-ins in Atlanta stores. ow.ly/5mo150ZX00V
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On this day in 1933, a mob of at least 2,000 white men, women, and children in Princess Anne, Maryland, hanged and burned George Armwood to death. Four white men were ultimately tried for the lynching of George Armwood and acquitted by all-white juries.
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