My Mind Stayed on Freedom Mae Bertha Carter, 1903-1999

“My Mind Stayed on Freedom” Mae Bertha Carter, 1903-1999 By Connie Curry Vol. 21, No. 2, 1999, pp. 29-30 Down the aisle they came. They were her thirteen children and their spouses, thirty-six grandchildren and spouses, thirty-five great grandchildren, godchildren,

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Deadly Cuts: Grady Hospital and the National Health Care Crisis

Deadly Cuts: Grady Hospital and the National Health Care Crisis By Murphy Davis Vol. 21, No. 3, 1999 pp. 3-5 The county commissioner looked perplexed. “You understand, don’t you, that we’re the bottom of the food chain here. You’re coming

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Teaching the Movement: “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” Now Available with a Curriculum Guide

Teaching the Movement: “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” Now Available with a Curriculum Guide Staff Vol. 21, No. 3, 1999 pp. 6-7 How many high school history courses fail to get past World War II to cover the Civil Rights

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Title I in Alabama: The Struggle to Meet Basic Needs

Title I in Alabama: The Struggle to Meet Basic Needs Citizen’s Commission on Civil Rights Vol. 21, No. 3, 1999 pp. 12-15 The Citizens’ Commission for Civil Rights, a nonpartisan organization founded in 1982 to monitor Federal civil rights policies

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