Tag: civil rights movement
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Civil rights activist recalls sit-ins and Freedom Rides of the 1960s
Angeline Butler was 17 years old when she was arrested for sitting at the lunch counter at McLellan’s five-and-ten-cent store in Nashville, Tenn. Butler, who is Black, had committed the crime of sitting at a lunch counter reserved for white people. In 1960, Black people were not permitted to sit at the same lunch counter…
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Leaders in North Brunswick weigh in on how to create ‘new destiny’ for black community
NORTH BRUNSWICK – “Enough is enough.” That is how Bishop Calvin Enlow of New Destiny Family Worship Center in North Brunswick began the “Healing for Our Nation” community conversation he organized on June 5. “I have been praying all week that this would serve as a healing platform for our communities and throughout our nation,”…
