civil rights

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• SOURCE: IndieWire
  9/13/2020
  

  ‘MLK/FBI’ Review: A Damning Look at J. Edgar Hoover’s Attempts to Destroy a Civil Rights Hero

  The most revealing takeaway from a new documentary on the FBI's campaign to take down Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t that J. Edgar Hoover used every dirty machination at his disposal to take King down, but that most of the country seemed to think it was the right thing to do.

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• 9/13/2020
  

  Twenty-One Days Later: Ventura County's Participation in the Chicano Moratorium of 1970

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Police responded brutally to the 1970 Chicano Moratorium protest march in East Los Angeles, including killing journalist Ruben Salazar. This news spread to smaller Chicano communities in the state and beyond and sparked a politicial movement for justice that echoes today.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/11/2020
  

  ‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow

  by William Sturkey

  Lawyer and activist Pauli Murray undertook the arduous task of identifying racially discriminatory laws across the United States, and published a volume cataloguing them in 1950 as a took for attorneys working to dismantle Jim Crow. A University of North Carolina project uses technology to complete that task and demonstrate the historical pervasiveness of racism in the law.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/4/2020
  

  Overlooked No More: Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass

  Charlotta Bass led a remarkable life as a journalist and activist that, in many ways, helped lay the foundation for a figure like Harris, the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent to be nominated on a major-party ticket.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  9/8/2020
  

  Remembering Roberto Clemente as a Black Man who Fought Against Racial Injustice

  Roberto Clemente is often remembered as a pioneering Puerto Rican star in baseball, but as an Afro-Carribean player, he fought for Black civil rights as well. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/8/2020
  

  For the First Time, America May Have an Anti-Racist Majority

  by Adam Serwer

  Atlantic writer Adam Serwer argues that people who want to understand this year should look not to 1968, but to 1868, when a moment of potential for establishing interracial democracy through government intervention seemed possible. 

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• SOURCE: Reason
  9/7/2020
  

  Washington Post Journalist Radley Balko on Civil Rights, Militarized Policing, and the Power of Video

  Journalist and historian of policing Radley Balko discusses the changing perception of police and police abuse in an interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  9/1/2020
  

  Emmett Till’s Home, a Launching Pad for the Civil Rights Movement, Deserves Landmark Status

  Landmark status would further honor Emmett and Mamie Till’s tragic but critical role in American history.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/30/2020
  

  Photos from the March on Washington

  The Atlantic presents photographs from this weekend's March on Washington. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  8/28/2020
  

  BLM Organizers See the 1972 National Black Political Convention as a Model. What Can They Learn From It?

  The 1972 National Black Political Convention sought to chart a path for Black empowerment that reflected both protest and institutional politics. Its history has lessons for organizers today. 

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  8/30/2020
  

  While Auburn Hides Behind Law, Troy University Takes Racist Name Off Building

  by Jennifer Brooks

  A history professor urges her university to defy an Alabama law that prohibits renaming a historic public building; the legacy of civil disobedience from the Civil Rights movement demands nothing less. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/27/2020
  

  Yes, Republicans Freed The Slaves. They Were NOT These Republicans.

  Political scientist Andra Gillespie describes how the party power shifted in this country.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  ‘Ax Handle Saturday’: The Klan’s Vicious Attack On Black Protesters In Florida 60 Years Ago

  Historian Clayborne Carson notes that this incident marked a shift in the nature of racist backlash during the sit-in movement.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/23/2020
  

  Dan Budnik, Who Photographed History, Is Dead at 87

  His assignments for leading magazines took him to pivotal events of the civil rights era. He was also known for his photographs of artists.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/24/2020
  

  Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Limits of Representation

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  "Biden’s failure to meaningfully acknowledge his role in constructing the “color-blind” racial regime of the post-civil-rights era, structured around calls for law and order and the coded deprecation of poor Black women, has clouded his newfound epiphany concerning racial justice."

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Two American Dreams: Will Voters Choose John Lewis's or Donald Trump's?

  by Walter G. Moss

  The late Congressman John Lewis and Donald Trump offer two starkly divergent versions of the American Dream--a choice between nurturing community and freedom and acquisitive materialism. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Mourning Two Civil Rights Heroes Across the Atlantic

  by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein

  As we remember John Hume and John Lewis, we should find inspiration to continue their struggle.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/20/2020
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer’s Dauntless Fight for Black Americans’ Right to Vote

  by Keisha N. Blain

  As Hamer and her Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party colleagues pointed out to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, a “whites-only” Democratic Party representing a state in which one out of five residents were black undermined the very notion of representative democracy. 

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  8/18/2020
  

  Review: The New John Lewis Biography is a Stirring Tribute that Still Sells Him Short

  Readers who know little about Lewis will find an often moving story, but it will prove unsatisfying to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the movement.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/17/2020
  

  The March Carries On

  Holding a mass march for civil rights and social justice at a time of political division is risky. That's what they said in 1963. For leaders hoping to renew a call to national action, COVID and the election raise the stakes even higher.