By Mark Puleo During one of the most heated times in American history, Southern weather and its grueling effects played a significant, yet hardly recognized, role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. From rain-drenched marches to sweat-soaked sit-ins, activists endured challenging weather elements on top of hostile relations en route to a changed country. With the majority of […]
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