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Journey to the Beginning
Contributed on July 27, 2007
By: mllomax
Memories of life in the South during the civil rights movement.
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Taking a Stand for Voting Rights - The Lillian Bonner-Sutson Story
Contributed on April 11, 2010
By: marcusejones
In 1940, Lillian Bonner-Sutson, her mother and two other women tried to vote in Gaffney, SC. They were denied. They took their case to U.S. District Court. In 1942, the registrars were acquitted, but the women's legal effort established a precedent.
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