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Montgomery activist Johnnie Carr, who has worked for civil rights for a half-century, was honored with the third Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award March 18, sponsored by the Center and Troy State University Montgomery.
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Racial slurs motivate a teacher to create a tolerance program funded by a Center grant.
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Center co-founder Morris Dees speaks at a conference hosted by the Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate, which will help establish the field of Hate Studies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Center.
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A group of U.S. senators visited the Civil Rights Memorial Feb. 13 as part a three-day tour of southern sites important to the Civil Rights Movementof the 1950s and 1960s.
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A five-minute feature about tolerance sponsored by the Center will air on public television stations across the country.
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To celebrate and expand our awareness of black history (and not just during Black History Month), the Center's Tolerance.org project publishes a series on little-known African American contributions to American history.
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In a statement on behalf of the Center, Tolerance.org outreach associate Brandon Wilson says the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign should retire its racist mascot, Chief Illiniwek, because 'it is required by law and it is the right thing to do.'
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Morris Dees, Center co-founder, writes an eloquent candidate statement expressing his hope that Club members will 'save the Sierra Club from a takeover by the radical right.'
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The Center's Gaddis v. Campbell suit, filed to help diabetic inmates in Alabama prisons receive adequate medical care, has been settled, creating a precedent for in-prison diabetes care.
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In an attempt to avert a 'hostile takeover' of the Sierra Club by anti-immigration activists, Center co-founder Morris Dees is running for the board of directors of the well-known environmental organization.
