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Global LGBTQI+ refugee support and advocacy: Active Rainbow Sash: 1998: Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) 1979: Active Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) 1993: Merged into OutServe-SLDN: Society for Human Rights: 1924: Dissolved Soulforce: 1998: StartOut: 2009: Active Sylvia Rivera Law Project: 2002: Legal aid: Active The Ace ...
Lee College is named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee. At the time of its inception, the college was named Lee Junior College. Classes were held at Robert E. Lee High School in the evenings and during the summer months, after the high school classes were dismissed. Many of the original faculty also taught at Robert E. Lee High School ...
The young boys James Thompson and David Simpson with Kelly Alexander of the NAACP in Wadesboro, North Carolina, in January 1959. The Kissing Case was the arrest, conviction and lengthy sentencing of two prepubescent African-American boys in 1958 in Monroe, North Carolina.
In addition to being a longtime advocate of Pell grants, the organization also changed the concept of student loans to student debt. [1] On Nov. 13, 2014 US News reported that according to TICAS About 70 percent of 2013 graduates left college with an average of $28,400 in student loan debt in the United States. There was great variation between ...
Trustees are paid $2,000 per month and oversee a community college district that serves nearly 194,000 students, according to the most recent data from the 2023-2024 academic year.
Children At Risk is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that drives changes for children through research, education, and influencing public policy.Founded in the year of 1989 in Houston, Texas and with an office opened in North Texas in 2011, the organization focuses on the well-being of children and educates legislators on the importance of solving children's issues while at the same time ...
On October 19, 2018, religious activist Robert Dorr borrowed four LGBT+ books from the Orange City Public Library in Orange City, Iowa (including Levithan's Two Boys Kissing) and proceeded to burn the books while streaming the video on social media. [15] Dorr claimed he was "exercis[ing] his freedom of speech and the freedom of [his] Biblical ...
Lee Academy, formerly Robert E. Lee Academy, is a co-educational private school in Bishopville, South Carolina, United States. It was established in 1965 as a segregation academy [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and continued to serve an overwhelmingly white student body in the 2000s, with only three black students among a student body of more than 250 in 2018.