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Pogue Library at Murray State University is home to numerous special collections and oral history projects. Tucked among these documents is the Pulitzer…
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A group of six college students walked from Murray State University across the street to a small restaurant, about to quietly protest its “white-only”…
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Beyond preserving his legacy, city leaders are calling to investigate the 1940 death of Elbert Williams, who is believed to be the first NAACP official killed for seeking voting rights for blacks.
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On the Kentucky side of the border along Tennessee sits a little railroad town named Guthrie, the home of the nation's first poet laureate and three-time…
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Second Update: NPR's All Things Considered reported on this effort. Here's the link to their story: Tennessee Community Pushes To Reopen 'Civil Rights…
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The University of Tennessee at Martin hosts its 15th Annual Civil Rights Conference next week. Conference Director, Assistant Professor of History Renee…
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As Alabama becomes the most recent state to issue same sex marriages, some lawmakers there are decrying a federal judge’s decision to strike down the ban…
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WKMS celebrates Black History Month with a unique collection of vignettes during Sounds Good all month long, a limited-run series on the life and music of…
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"All my life I've been sick and tired. Now I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." - Fannie Lou HamerThis summer marks the 50th anniversary of…
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Paducah has lost a formative civil rights activist and its first black City Commissioner. Reverend Wardelle G. Harvey died the Tuesday evening at the age…