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Photographer Cecil Williams' vision gives South Carolina its only civil rights museum

Cecil Williams spent decades photographing South Carolina's civil rights history

The Independent UK

For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story

President Joe Biden is expected to sign a proclamation on Tuesday that establishes a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the civil rights movement

The Independent UK

Juneteenth draws attention to sites linked to enslavement after decades of neglect.

Hundreds of historic sites from Massachusetts to Texas offer windows into enslaved people's lives.

Axios

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$6m raised to preserve Nina Simone's childhood home

NEW YORK: An art auction and New York gala have raised nearly US$6 million to preserve and restore the childhood home of soul music legend and civil rights activist Nina Simone, organisers said Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

$6 mn raised to preserve Nina Simone's childhood home

New York (AFP) - An art auction and New York gala have raised nearly $6 million to preserve and restore the childhood home of soul music legend and civil rights activist Nina Simone, organizers said Tuesday.

AFP

US artists lead effort to restore Nina Simone's childhood home

New York (AFP) - A group of US artists have spearheaded efforts to preserve musical great and civil rights activist Nina Simone's childhood home as a cultural site, auctioning artworks and organizing a gala on Saturday in New York to raise funds.

AFP

Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation

A construction project in Alabama demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022

The Independent UK

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Emmett Till’s Chicago home to get preservation funds

CHICAGO — Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman.

Chicago Tribune

Emmett Till’s house, Black sites to get landmarks funds

The house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

Chicago Sun-Times

Emmett Till's Chicago home will get money designated for preserving Black history

A preservation organization said the home will get a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

WEKU

Emmett Till's house, Black sites to get preservation funds

Emmett Till's Chicago home is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share $3 million in grant money from a preservation organization

The Independent UK

Fund to preserve, assist Black churches gets $20M donation

A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations

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