South Carolina schools’ race, gender rules face civil rights lawsuit
The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are ...
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New monument commemorates the last Native American school in SC, civil rights legacy
RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (WCIV) — A historical monument commemorating the last school for Native Americans in South Carolina prior to ...
Civil Rights lawsuit challenges SC curriculum restrictions
The State Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver and two Midlands school districts are at the forefront of a Civil Rights ...
‘It handcuffs the minds of our children’: Civil Rights lawsuit challenges SC curriculum restrictions
The State Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver and two Midlands school districts are at the forefront of a Civil Rights Lawsuit.
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Graduate student who went to public schools in NWLA can’t read cursive
"I'm a history major," said Barnes. "One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report ...
Hicks: South Carolina's real 'choice'? Sabotaging public schools in favor of private education.
South Carolina's idea of school choice is promoting private and charter schools at the expense of public education. It all ...
Key figure in civil rights movement, youngest ‘Freedom Rider’ honored after passing at 82
On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...
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Activists Share Status of Civil Rights Movement
Activist Angela Davis was the guest speaker at an event hosted nationally by SURJ, Showing Up for Racial Justice, which is an organization mobilizing predominantly white people to be involved in ...
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Federal Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina Law on Race and Gender Education
A federal lawsuit was filed earlier this week against the state of South Carolina, alleging that a state law restricts critical discussions o ...
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Two pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement, Charles Person and Thomas Gaither
For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...
Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
US Supreme Court rejects likely final appeal of South Carolina inmate a day before his execution
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...