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#TJFBHM18: Wyatt Tee Walker, National Civil Rights Leader & Virginia Union University Grad

February 27, 2018 by Tom Joyner Foundation

Wyatt Tee Walker is an African-American pastor and national civil rights leader best known for his accomplishments alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was the Chief of Staff to Dr. King, key strategist behind major protests, and highly commended for helping circulate Dr. King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Dr. Walker graduated from Virginia Union […]

Civil Rights Attorney & Morehouse Grad Lee Merritt Talks About His HBCU Experience on ‘It’s Sybil’

February 18, 2018 by Cherie S. White

Dallas Attorney Lee Merritt sits down with host Sybil Wilkes on her new Sunday show “It’s Sybil.” CLICK HERE to listen as he talks about his work, his childhood and his days as a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.      

SSU, local bar associations present documentary honoring legendary civil rights attorney

September 27, 2013 by sarterbery

SAVANNAH—In partnership with the Savannah Bar Association, the Port City Bar Association and Savannah State University (SSU) will present the Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies documentary Donald L. Hollowell: Foot Soldier for Equal Justice at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 1, in Elmore Theater at the King-Frazier Student Center. The presentation is free and […]

ASU awarded nearly $1 million for Voting Rights Interpretive Center

July 22, 2013 by sarterbery

MEDIA RELATIONS To: All news media From: Kenneth Mullinax, ASU spokesman, 334-229-4104 Re: ASU awarded nearly $1 million for Montgomery’s new Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights Interpretive Center! Today’s date: July 1, 2013      ASU awarded nearly $1 million in grant funds for Montgomery’s new Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights Interpretive Center!   Alabama State’s National Center for […]

Civil Rights pioneer to give memorabilia to Tuskegee University

June 19, 2013 by sarterbery

    Contact: Teri Sumbry 334-724-4552 334-339-1928 tsumbry@mytu.tuskegee.edu   TUSKEGEE, Ala. (June 18, 2013) —Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights pioneer and community activist, recently donated her personal memorabilia collection to Tuskegee University. Robinson, Class of 1927, is best known as one of the protesters in the “Bloody Sunday” march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge […]

Cheyney University of Pennslyvania to honor Civil Lights leader

May 17, 2013 by sarterbery

MEDIA ADVISORY FROM CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Friday, May 18, 2013 Contact:  Office of Public Relations & Constituent Development Pam Carter, 610-399-2515, pcarter@cheyney.edu. Press coverage at the event is welcome.   Cheyney University Honors Civil Rights Hero at 2013 Commencement Program WHO:         Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Facilitator: Cheyney University President, Dr. Michelle R. Howard-Vital Honoree:  Bayard T. […]

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