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    Feb 26, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  1. 'Just A Foot Soldier,' a Freedom Rider's story

    Exploring race
    On May 4, 1961, an integrated group of "Freedom Riders" left Washington D.C. for Louisiana on a Greyhound bus to challenge segregation throughout the Deep South. After the Freedom Riders’ bus was fire bombed in Alabama—with them inside---...
    2. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Ben Affleck to receive honorary doctorate from Brown University

    Good Ben Hunting! Ben Affleck is getting an honorary degree from Brown University.
    Good Ben Hunting! Ben Affleck is getting an honorary degree from Brown University. Is this life imitating art? The Academy Award-winning producer and philanthropist, 40, is set to receive the honorary degree from the Providence, R.I.-based...

    Tags: Movies, Colleges and Universities, Brown University, Miami Dade College, Ben Affleck

    3. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Nova A. Scott, educator

    Nova A. Scott, a retired Baltimore public schools educator who became the first African-American woman to serve on the Howard County Commission on Aging, died Wednesday of complications from an infection at Howard County General Hospital.
    Nova A. Scott, a retired Baltimore public schools educator who became the first African-American woman to serve on the Howard County Commission on Aging, died Wednesday of complications from an infection at Howard County General Hospital. She was 86....

    Tags: Christianity, Ellicott City, Justice and Rights, University of Maryland, College Park, Johns Hopkins University

    4. Nov 25, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Lawrence Guyot dies at 73; longtime civil rights activist

    Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who was threatened, jailed and nearly beaten to death in the Deep South in the 1960s and helped lead a drive to register black voters during the tumultuous Freedom Summer of 1964, has died. He was 73.
    Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who was threatened, jailed and nearly beaten to death in the Deep South in the 1960s and helped lead a drive to register black voters during the tumultuous Freedom Summer of 1964, has died. He was 73. The longtime...

    Tags: Justice and Rights, Rutgers University, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Washington, DC

    5. Nov 25, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot dies at 73

    Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s and went on to encourage generations to get involved, has died. He was 73. 
    Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s and went on to encourage generations to get involved, has died. He was 73.  Guyot had a history of heart problems and suffered from diabetes, and died...

    Tags: Justice and Rights, Rutgers University, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Labor Legislation

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