civil rights history 
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
3/14/2022
Itta Bena, Miss. Works to Preserve Civil Rights History
Shannon Bowden of Mississippi Valley State University is leading a public history project for the nearby Delta town of Itta Bena, preserving the sites and stories of voting rights activism.
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SOURCE: NBC News
1/24/2022
Florida School District, Citing "Critical Race Theory" Concerns, Cancels Prof's Civil Rights History Lecture
“The victims of this censorship are history and the truth,” J. Michael Butler said. “The end game is they’re going to make teaching civil rights into ‘critical race theory,’ and it’s not.”
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SOURCE: Washington Times (AP)
1/25/20
Marker will honor civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer
Research for the project was led by a Mississippi Valley State University student and history professor C. Sade Turnipseed.
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SOURCE: Wired
10/18/19
Zuckerberg’s Warped History Lesson and the Age of Incoherence
by Naom Cohen
The Facebook CEO invoked the civil-rights era to justify kowtowing to money and power. It doesn’t wash.
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SOURCE: NY Times
5/21/19
Revitalizing Montgomery as It Embraces Its Past
Two cultural projects that examine the Alabama city’s role in the civil rights movement are drawing throngs of visitors and encouraging a surge of downtown construction.
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