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WATCH: Civil rights curriculum aims to shape future leaders
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WATCH: Civil rights curriculum aims to shape future leaders

(The Center Square) – It was the winter of 1962. Demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, came to see Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his support in organizing a protest in the segregated city where Black people were forced to sit in the back of buses, couldn't sit at lunch counters with white people, couldn't even drink out of the same fountains as white people.

Your Voice: Jan. 14, 2026
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Your Voice: Jan. 14, 2026

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Black History 101 exhibit visits The Gorge
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Black History 101 exhibit visits The Gorge

  • By Flora M. Gibson Columbia Gorge News
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THE DALLES — About 40 people who attended a mobile museum and lecture on Black history, got to touch and examine more than 150 museum-quality items dating from the transatlantic slave trade, through hip-hop culture and the Black Lives Matter movement, and heard from the museum’s founder, Dr. Khalid El-Hakim.