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15-year-old Dorothy Counts pushed through racist mobs to become the first black student at an all-white high school.
Though convention staff were reportedly working to replace the signs, not all of them were gone by opening day.
Rep. John Lewis has been a civil rights leader for decades, standing by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s side in the 1960s and leading the
Cleveland, Mississippi schools have been segregated for decades, but the area's predominantly black and predominantly white schools will now merge after a half-century long legal battle ended on Monday with a federal court ruling that said the notion of "separate but equal" had to go.
On the evening of February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia. Earlier that day, he’d been honorably discharged, and he was heading to Winnsboro, South Carolina to reunite with his wife.