civil rights

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/26/2020
  

  The Asian American Response to Black Lives Matter Is Part of a Long, Complicated History

  “Asian Americans owe so much of their presence in this country to the Black struggle for freedom — from birthright citizenship to the ability to tell our stories in education and the culture to the civil rights we enjoy,” says author Jeff Chang.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/30/2020
  

  Confronting the Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle (Video)

  by André Robert Lee

  In this video, we meet Sylvester, a man born and raised in the same town where Emmett Till was tortured and lynched. His story, his connection to the land and the people, and his recollection of that fateful event compels us to bear witness.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/26/2020
  

  The FBI Has a History of Targeting Black Activists. That's Still True Today

  The FBI has long disrupted and discredited civil rights leaders. It should put its authorities to better use by holding officers accountable.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/22/2020
  

  A 1960s Lawsuit Against the KKK Can Help Protect Elections in 2020

  The precedent means that election authorities have a positive obligation to alleviate conditions that could make voters afraid to cast a ballot. In the 1960s, that meant the Klan. Under COVID, it could mean crowded polls, long lines, or the lack of means to vote by mail. 

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• SOURCE: KTVU
  3/22/2020
  

  Local Activists on How this Racial Justice Movement Fits in Oakland's History

  Protests on Oakland reflect the energy of young organizers but also a legacy of African American activism. Five community leaders reflect on continuity and change in the city. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/25/2020
  

  The Black-White Wage Gap Is as Big as It Was in 1950

  Recent research indicates little progress since the Truman administration.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/17/2020
  

  The GOP Missed Its Chance To Embrace Martin Luther King Jr.

  by Tim Galsworthy

  Invoking a sanitized and selective memory of Dr. King enables politicians and voters to trumpet order and exhibit faux outrage at disorder, rather than face up to endemic racial inequalities.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/13/2020
  

  The End of Black Politics

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The 1960s generation of Black protest demanded a stronger presence in local government. The current protest movement recognizes that presence isn't enough; leaders must advance an agenda that serves their least advantaged constituents. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/15/2020
  

  The History of the “Riot” Report

  by Jill Lepore

  How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  6/16/2020
  

  Why Israelis Backed the Civil Rights Movement but Fear Black Lives Matter

  by Chemi Shalev

  After more than 40 years of right-wing rule, Israelis identify and are identified more with ruling whites than with oppressed Blacks.

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• SOURCE: History Extra (BBC)
  6/16/2020
  

  American Spotlight: How Today’s Protests Echo Historical Outrage

  In this podcast, Kevin Gaines speaks with History Extra on the history of the civil rights movement, racial tensions in America, and the history behind the police violence of recent weeks.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/16/2020
  

  Why Protest Movements Are ‘Civil’ Only in Retrospect

  Historian Richard Pierce: “Blacks can’t continue to wait around to find an acceptable form of protest that will generate 100 percent approval on the other side, because that doesn’t exist.”

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  6/6/2020
  

  Emmett Till's Lynching Ignited a Civil Rights Movement. Historians Say George Floyd's Death Could Do the Same

  "Nothing has ever hit me harder than the image of George Floyd. When I saw that image, it brought me back to when I first saw the photograph of Emmett Till at the age of 10," says documentary filmmaker Keith Beauchamp.

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• Respectability and Remembrance: The Continued Condemnation of Black Resistance

  by Anne Stokes

  Addressing the full depth of racism and white supremacy in America requires understanding the limits of the non-violent civil rights movements, and the necessity of armed self-defense for African Americans against the violence perpetrated or instigated by whites — including the police — throughout American history.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  The Vexations of History In An Age of Police Violence: A Ventura County California Perspective

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Protests like those in the author's home city show that minority communities across the nation have longstanding historical grievances against police departments that must be addressed with meaningful change.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  6/7/2020
  

  MLK’s Prescription For Protests: Nonviolent, But Also Unceasing And Disruptive

  by Jason Sokol

  By recalling King’s words, we might articulate a position that builds on his own — a position that, most importantly, demands structural changes in our society to end police violence, yet readily recognizes the self-defeating nature of looting and destruction.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/12/2020
  

  A Short History of Black Women and Police Violence

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Despite, or perhaps because of, their own vulnerability to state-sanctioned violence, black women have been key voices in the struggle to end it.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/9/2020
  

  The Black Women Who Paved the Way for This Moment

  by Keisha N. Blain

  The prominence of black women in today's protests is not a sudden development. In taking to the streets in support of their goals, they are building upon a rich tradition of black women’s organizing.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/2020
  

  A ‘Good’ Protester is Just a ‘Bad’ Protester in the Misty Rearview Mirror

  by David S. Meyer

  The comparison drawn between "good" and "bad" forms of protest usually draws on oversimplified historical comparisons and is often intended to justify ignoring the substantive problems animating protests. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/11/2020
  

  Violence As A Form Of Protest

  Professor of Africana Studies Kellie Carter Jackson speaks with WBUR on the relationship between violence and protest; a relationship which goes back to the Boston Massacre.