97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.
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This week, Scott and Aaron reflect on courageous figures in history, like English suffragette Millicent Fawcett, pioneering jockey Julie Krone – and teen civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, who predated Rosa Parks in challenging bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. They also discuss Griswold v. Connecticut, a seminal Supreme Court case on the right to privacy that was handed down this week in 1965 – a case that only reached the Supremes when a lower court actually ruled against privacy rights.
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