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Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, holds up a copy of a lawsuit filed on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public elementary schools during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Lawsuit: Mississippi fails to educate black children equally

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2007, file photo, Hollis Watkins speaks to participants during a gathering held at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn. Under proposed changes to Tennessee’s social studies curriculum, public school students would no longer be required to be taught about the social justice school that counts Rosa Parks among its alumni and Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt and folk singer Pete Seeger among its supporters. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

Civil rights milestones among Tennessee items facing cuts

By ERIK SCHELZIG - Associated Press

Civil War exhibit at Coolidge site opens Saturday

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Coolidge site to host Civil War exhibit

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Mass. general’s greatest hours captured in book

By CHRIS BERGERON - Associated Press

This undated handout image provided by the Library of Congress shows a letter written by Mary Todd Lincoln to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, which is part of an exhibit at the Library of Congress of letters and diaries saved for 150 years from those who lived through the Civil War that offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation. The Library of Congress holds the largest collection of Civil War documents. It has pulled 200 items from its holdings for a new exhibit to reveal both private and public thoughts from dozens of famous and ordinary citizens who lived in the North and the South. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

Library of Congress shows diaries from Civil War

By Brett Zongker - Associated Press

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Webb eyes more battlefield funds