Tag Archives: civil rights
Civil rights road trip
When 1970 Boston College graduate John (Jack) Hanrahan and his wife traveled through the South to visit sites that were connected to important events in the country’s civil rights era, they found the most recent book on civil rights travel … Continue reading
Eleanor Roosevelt & Mary McLeod Bethune
Bestselling novelist Marie Benedict, a graduate of Boston College, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray have written a new historical novel about the singular friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. The … Continue reading
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