civil rights

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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.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  July 26, 2019
  

  Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs

  When dozens of brutal race riots erupted across the U.S. in the wake of World War I and the Great Migration, black veterans stepped up to defend their communities against white violence.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  July 21, 2019
  

  ‘Ready to explode’: How a black teen’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago

  100 years ago riots broke out across Chicago. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/16/19
  

  Not Everyone Wanted a Man on the Moon

  by Neil M. Maher

  Protesters in the late ’60s and early ’70s pushed for spending at home on the same multibillion dollar scale as the moon race.

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• SOURCE: History
  7/11/2019
  

  Why Civil Rights Activists Protested the Moon Landing

  In 1969, NASA was spending millions on the Apollo space program. Some argued that money could be better spent.

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• 7/14/19
  

  Say It Ain't So Joe: Strategies of Segregation in Ventura County

  by Frank P. Barajas

  The desegregation busing laws that Joe Biden opposed in the 1970s have given way to "a more insidious segregation" in this California community today.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  July 7, 2019
  

  James Monroe Enslaved Hundreds. Their Descendants Still Live Next Door.

  A small African-American community has existed less than 10 miles from the president’s former plantation for generations. Only recently has the full extent of their relationship been revealed.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  July 3, 2019
  

  Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

  by Denise Lynn

  Read about the "Trenton Six" and their similar story to the Central Park Five. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/1/19
  

  There’s a Generational Shift in the Debate Over Busing

  by Matthew Delmont

  Kamala Harris took part in a bold experiment as a child—and the experiences of her generation may transform the debate over desegregation.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/28/2019
  

  Joe Biden’s record on school desegregation busing, explained

  The former vice president once called busing “an asinine policy.”

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  06/30/2019
  

  Kamala Harris and Classmates Were Bused Across Berkeley. The Experience Changed Them.

  Read how the history of busing impacted Kamala Harris, and what she did to combat her experiences.