A Putnam County jury has found Green Chimneys in Patterson liable for failing to protect a young girl from repeated sexual assaults by the school’s barn manager in the late 1960s and early 1970s. On ...

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KENT, Ohio (AP) — Dean Kahler flung himself to the ground and covered his head when the bullets started flying. The Ohio National Guard had opened fire on unarmed war protesters at Kent State ...

University of Mississippi students meet members of the school's Black Student Union who were jailed in 1970 for protesting token integration, comparing their demands back then to campus life today.

New lawsuits announced Monday claim a Baltimore City Public School teacher sexually assaulted students in the 1970s. The lawsuit, filed by Baltimore-based law firm Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, accuses the ...

Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker display two black armbands. The children, both students at North High School, were suspended from classes along with three other students for wearing the bands to ...

On April 22, 1970, college students across the nation gathered on campus quads and on administrative steps. In an explosion of teach-ins, they called attention to the injustices threatening our clean ...

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Many a Black history lesson includes the story of James Meredith, the man who, in 1962, integrated the University of Mississippi - the college campus most associated with the Old South. But that was ...