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When slaves sued for freedom: A city reckons with its past

April 4, 2012 Frank Kovarik Civil Rights, Courts, History, Human Rights, Missouri region 3 comments

In Memphis, they’ve turned the hotel where Martin Luther King was murdered into a museum honoring the Civil Rights Movement. Across the South, “Civil

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Evil and the garden

November 1, 2011 Frank Kovarik Civil Rights, History, Missouri region 3 comments

The other day I took a bike ride along the Riverfront Trail in St. Louis.  The trail runs north from Laclede’s Landing, following the

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