Category: Civil Rights travel
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San Antonio Missions preserve Native American history in Texas’s first World Heritage Site
Story and photos by Tracy L. Barnett for the Washington Post Two weathered gravestones sit in a small, dusty rectangle in front of the grand Spanish church at the heart of the nation’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site, the San Antonio Missions. I’ve been to Mission San Jose many times — to attend the lively…
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Selma marches, Bloody Sunday mark 50th anniversaries
My latest for USA Today, and one I really enjoyed doing. The best part was interviewing two heroes of the Civil Rights movement – Vera Booker and Gwen Patton, who put their bodies on the line time after time. Sad that 50 years later, people are still having to fight for the same things. But…