By KIM CHANDLER and GARY FIELDS, Associated Press MARION (AP) — Della Simpson Maynor was just 14 when she marched for voting rights in her hometown of Marion, Alabama. Her most distinct memory of that evening is of the police…
By WVUA 23 News Reporter Asher Redd Hillcrest High School students and local civil rights leaders continue working for change in the wake of a controversy surrounding a student-led Black History Monday…
By WVUA 23 News Student Reporter Asher Redd The NAACP spent Saturday speaking with students who attend Hillcrest High School after they said they believe school administrators are censoring…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - The Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture has received a $1,450 grant to create a map highlighting the civil rights movement in Natchez. Mayor Dan Gibson said the map will help tell the full…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Archivists and volunteers will soon begin combing through decades of artifacts from a Tuscaloosa barbershop central to the city's civil rights history. The Tuscaloosa News reports that Rev. Thomas Linton died in 2020 but before his death…
