civil rights

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• SOURCE: Washignton Post
  1/21/20
  

  Arrested for having sex with men, this gay civil rights leader could finally be pardoned in California

  A decade before Bayard Rustin became a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, the civil rights activist was booked into a Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of “lewd vagrancy.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/8/20
  

  The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement: Marcia Chatelain's Latest Book Reviewed

  In “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America,” Marcia Chatelain has written a smart and capacious history suggesting that McDonald’s should summon all of those thoughts, and then some.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/19/19
  

  Jack O’Dell, King Aide Fired Over Communist Past, Dies at 96

  He worked on fund-raising and voter registration for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Then President Kennedy insisted on his dismissal.

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/11/19
  

  Montgomery, Ala., Was a Hub of the Slave Trade and a Center of the Civil Rights Movement. It's About to Swear in Its First Black Mayor

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Montgomery, Alabama elects its first African American Mayor.  

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 11/13/19
  

  The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

  by Adam Serwer

  "The idea that we’re currently experiencing something like the nadir of American civility ignores the turmoil that has traditionally characterized the nation’s politics, and the comparatively low level of political violence today despite the animosity of the moment." Serwer cites historian Manisha Sinha.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 6, 2019
  

  Martin Luther King Jr.’s name removed from historic street by Kansas City voters

  Voters agreed to remove Martin Luther King's name from city street signs.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/7/19
  

  Why Popeyes markets its chicken sandwich to African Americans

  by Marcia Chatelain

  Popeyes has long cultivated a black customer base — which has positive and negative ramifications.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 4, 2019
  

  White supremacists gathered at Emmett Till’s bulletproof memorial to shoot a video

  White supremacists visited Emmett Till's memorial causing dismay to many.  

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  10/31/19
  

  High School AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims After Lobbying Congress

  by Ethan Ehrenhaft

  An AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims

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• 10/29/19
  

  Throwing Away the “Electability” Argument

  by Matthew Crawford

  There is no historical basis for the idea that women and minority candidates aren’t electable.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/4/19
  

  'God Is Not Going to Put It in Your Lap.' What Made Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message on Civil Rights So Radical—And So Enduring

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Hamer’s bold message to “get up and try to do something” was one that all Americans committed to change needed to hear

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• 10/6/19
  

  Incognegro: How Law Enforcement Spies on Black Radical Groups

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  From COINTELPRO to Black Lives Matter. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  9/27/19
  

  Listen to the Stories of Alabama’s Civil Rights Sites

  A new interactive project seeks to preserve oral testimonies connected to 20 historic locations.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  September 30, 2019
  

  The Forgotten History of America’s Worst Racial Massacre

  by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

  Hundreds of black citizens were killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a century ago this week.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/20/19
  

  The civil rights leader ‘almost nobody knows about’ gets a statue in the U.S. Capitol

  Chief Standing Bear is often forgotten.  Now he has a statue in the Capitol.  

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/13/19
  

  Influential Civil Rights Advocate Juanita Abernathy Dies at 88

  by Chevel Johnson

  Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, has died. 

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  8/27/19
  

  The Price of Self-Delusion

  by Ronald Radosh

  Paul Robeson, the towering figure of American arts, athletics, and civil rights activism, was also an unapologetic Stalinist. Failing to acknowledge this checkered legacy ultimately does a disservice to the goals he fought for.

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• 8/28/19
  

  The Problem with The Rosa Parks Barbie

  by Andrea S. Johnson

  Rosa Parks wasn't just a tired seamstress with aching feet. The true story of Rosa Parks that historians have worked hard to reconstruct is continually lost in public consumption.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/14/19
  

  Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.

  by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.