Posted on
May 4th, 2009 by
Bernard Timberg
As much as I might have seen it in newsreels or on TV, I hadn’t been prepared for what was to come. You don’t know what true unleashed anger, hate, spit, violence, rocks—and fear of injury and death—are, until you experience it yourself. You really don’t know what a “mob” is.
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Posted on
April 23rd, 2009 by
Bernard Timberg
Award-winning journalist visits campus
Talk links Civil Rights Movement to upcoming Inauguration
Elise Phillips, Assistant Pulse Editor
Issue date: 1/15/09 Section: News
Just days before Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, award-winning journalist and author Charles E. Cobb visited campus yesterday with a message to students and staff alike: The Civil Rights Movement ignited the flame for the election [...]
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Posted on
April 23rd, 2009 by
Bernard Timberg
Time Magazine
March on Gwynn Oak Park
Friday, Jul. 12, 1963
Meeting in New York City last month, the general board of the National Council of Churches entered into soul-searching discussion of the role its members should play in the nation’s civil rights struggle. Were pulpit pronouncements enough? Could the Christian conscience be satisfied by mere pious expressions [...]
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Posted on
March 19th, 2009 by
Carlton Purvis
This article by Marion Blackburn was published in February by East Magazine, ECU’s online magazine, to give students a look at a little known incident during the school’s first steps on the “road to desegregation.”
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