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JANUARY 21, 2013

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. Copyright © 2013. I grew up in an America where legally-mandated segregation was reality. Free at last!

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America Children National Law 138

The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Online sales gave Gee’s Bend quilters control over their work Quilts made by generations of women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have hung in the Met, the Whitney, and the Smithsonian Museum of Art. Occasionally, some of that trickles back in the form of one-off gallery sales, or copyright royalties. Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole.

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Community Alabama Arts Generation 98

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. Copyright © 2014. I grew up in an America where legally-mandated segregation was reality. Free at last!

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America Children National Law 100