This panel from the AIDS Memorial Quilt honors activist Roger Lyon, who died of AIDS in 1984.
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7/20/2012
In this post, students will learn about the spring and summer of 1961, when more than 400 Americans became Freedom Riders. They did so knowing full well that the simple act of violating long-held traditions of racial segregation and white supremacy would almost certainly lead to arrest
