civil rights movement

Meredith March Against Fear- 54th Anniversary

Meredith March Against Fear 54th Anniversary Photo above by Bob Fitch, Stanford Library Archives On June 7th, 1966, James Meredith, who had integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962, began the March Against Fear; an attempt to walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, (Photo at Jackson state capitol above) to promote black voter registration and defy …

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Bob Fitch Memorial: 5/27/16– Link to video and 2015 radio interview with Bob

Autumn Sun took some nice photos at Bob’s memorial in May, 2016: https://www.facebook.com/autumn.sun.58/media_set?set=a.10208879829008074.1073741943.1085185228&type=3 Thank you to Eric Thiermann and Impact Creative for videotaping Bob Fitch’s memorial on 5/27/16 at Peace United Church in Santa Cruz. See link to video below. We encourage people to share it and download it to your computers if you want …

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Couple wages 60-year fight for rights of others

Couple wages 60-year fight for rights of others  Josh Moon, Montgomery Advertiser12:32 a.m. CDT April 5, 2015 (Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser) There is a mantra that Rev. Robert Graetz and his wife, Jeannie, have lived by — a lesson taught by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and practiced among the foot soldiers of the …

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