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NAACP, United Auto Workers donate $5K to Mason to help with...
On Monday night the NAACP and United Auto Workers union donated money to help Mason with its utility fund repayment efforts.
“It’s good to see...
Here’s why Mason’s request for injunction against the comptroller was denied
Late last week Chancellor Anne C. Martin denied the Town of Mason’s request for an injunction against the comptroller’s corrective action plan.
The emergency petition...
NAACP, Town of Mason file suit against comptroller; decision could be...
On Friday, on behalf of the Town of Mason, the NAACP’s Legal Defense & Education Fund filed a lawsuit for an injunction against the...
Juneteenth event planned Saturday in Frazier Park
On Saturday the county’s second-ever known celebration of Juneteenth, the day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States, will be held...
Integrating schools: Tipton County Schools went from freedom of choice to...
Tennessee has always been a late bloomer when it comes to civil rights and that also extended to the education of its children.
In the...
Freedom Riders, NAACP honor bus driver Jim Ruth
The year was 1961 and the Civil Rights Movement was already in full swing.
Lead by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), on May 4,...
