Cindy Lange-Kubick: Lenora Letcher, leading with love and leaving a legacy in Lincoln CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column Feb 7, 2018 Feb 7, 2018 Updated Feb 15, 2023 0 In this photo from 1993, longtime local civil-rights activists Lenora Letcher (left) and Leola Bullock share a hug. 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Cindy Lange-Kubick: The trailblazing teacher at Millard Lefler Junior High He stood at the front of his classroom, a trailblazer in teacher’s clothing.
Cindy Lange-Kubick: Lincoln, the residence of Dr. Leola Bullock, standing on the high ground of civil rights You can see her life’s passion in all the places Leola Bullock stood her ground.
Cindy Lange-Kubick: The legacy of John Johnson, son of slaves and Lincoln's African-American community photographer The photographer was born in Lincoln and spent his life in a frame house on A Street, where a red-brick apartment building with long, narrow w…
Cindy Lange-Kubick: Ruth Cox Adams, beloved adopted sister of Frederick Douglass, at rest in Lincoln The newspaper story called her an “old colored lady.”
Cindy Lange-Kubick: A big kid at heart at the heart of the Malone Center Nate Woods walked the streets of the neighborhood that summer.
Cindy Lange-Kubick: I told them, 'There's no such thing as you can't do it.' The mother sat on the superintendent's front steps.
Cindy Lange-Kubick: Find a way, make a way, Brittney Hodges-Bolkovac There’s a portrait of Barack Obama under the American flag in Brittney Hodges-Bolkovac’s classroom.
