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Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet

On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two

After a federal court ruling invalidated Georgia’s all-white primary in 1946, there was a huge push to form a coalition

This article was originally published on April 29, 2015. Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

Throughout much of the twentieth century, Florida’s warm climate and long sunny days managed to attract the nation’s elites. The