In the early morning of July 11, 1964, three U.S. Army officers passed through Athens to their homes in Washington, D.C. from Ft. Benning where they had been training. At the wheel was Lt. Col...
Read moreDaryl Davis got his degree in music. His band was playing at a “white” truck stop when he had his first encounter with a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The band had just finished...
Read moreThe North humiliated the South militarily. Following the Civil War, they looked to codify their victory through the reconstruction process. The Radical Republicans not only wished to preserve the Union, but ensure slavery’s end and black rights. President...
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