civil rights

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  1/22/2021
  

  Hank Aaron Dies at Age 86

  The baseball Hall of Famer and one-time home run leader died at age 86 on January 22. Here, watch his record-breaking 715th home run, as announced by broadcasting legend Vin Scully.

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• SOURCE: History
  1/20/2021
  

  How Tuskegee Airmen Fought Military Segregation With Nonviolent Action

  Alan Osur and Todd Moye help tell the story of the efforts of the Tuskegee Airmen to integrate military recreational facilities in 1944. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/17/2021
  

  Tom Lankford, 85, Dies; Southern Journalist With Divided Loyalties

  Tom Lankford took many iconic photographs in Birmingham that publicized the cause of Civil Rights protestors. But he worked behind the scenes to cultivate relationships with the city's notorious Bull Connor to buttress the reputation of the police force while working with his publisher to squelch local demands for change that threatened the business community.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/18/2021
  

  The Words of Martin Luther King Jr. Reverberate in a Tumultuous Time

  Clayborne Carson, the founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute is part of a roundup of scholars and activists who point to King's speeches other than 1963's "I Have a Dream" as guiding lights for our time. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/15/2021
  

  A New Film Details the FBI’s Relentless Pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr.

  The new film "MLK/FBI" addresses Americans' failure to remember that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was unpopular, labeled as divisive and subversive, and subject to harassment by federal law enforcement agencies during his life. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/10/2020
  

  Black Southerners are Wielding Political Power that was Denied their Parents and Grandparents

  While the voter mobilization efforts that tipped Georgia's senate races to the Democrats have been much-discussed, they capitalized on a long-term shift in the Black population to the urban and suburban south, a "reverse great migration" that will be politically consequential for years to come. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/4/2021
  

  The Bravery of William Winter

  by Stuart Stevens

  Former Mississippi Governor William Winter should be remembered for facing down extremists and advancing a moderate vision of change in Mississippi that centered on education. He died at 97 on December 18. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/22/2020
  

  Trump Loyalists Harboring Martial Law Fantasies Don’t Know Their History

  by Gillian Brockell

  Michael Flynn's casual mention that martial law has ben invoked "64 times" flagrantly ignores the context of those events. What he proposes for Trump to do is unprecedented.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/20/2020
  

  A Statue of Barbara Johns Should Replace Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol

  The Washington Post's editorial board recommends the young educational justice activist to replace Robert E. Lee's statue in the US Capitol. 

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• SOURCE: Kansas City Star
  12/20/2020
  

  When Civil Rights Movement Marched Forward, The Kansas City Star Lagged Behind

  The Kansas City Star begins a series reckoning with its failures to cover local protests for civil rights.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/19/2020
  

  Jean Graetz, White Supporter of Civil Rights in Alabama, Dies at 90

  Jean Graetz, one of the few white supporters of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, passed away at age 90. 

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• Terror in the City Too Busy to Hate: How the English Avenue School Bombing Challenged Atlanta’s Popular Myth of Racial Progress

  by Max Blau and Todd Michney

  Months before Atlanta’s public schools desegregated, someone bombed an all-Black school on the city’s Westside. On the 60th anniversary of that incident, Max Blau and Todd Michney revisit the forces that led to the attack and reflect on its legacy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/11/2020
  

  Gloria Richardson Pushed Aside a Bayonet as a ’60s Civil Rights Activist. Now 98, She Wants the New Generation to Fight On

  Gloria Richardson remains a fierce advocate for racial justice and a proponent of disrupting the status quo decades after being photographed pushing aside a National Guardsman's bayonet during protests in Cambridge, Maryland. 

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• SOURCE: US News and World Report
  12/12/2020
  

  Mississippi Home of Medgar Evers Declared National Monument

  The Mississippi home where civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in 1963 has been declared a national monument.

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• SOURCE: Winston-Salem Journal
  12/4/2020
  

  50 Essential Civil Rights Speeches

  A collection of links to audio or video of some of the most important speeches of the Civil Rights Era. 

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• SOURCE: TedEd
  12/7/2020
  

  The Hidden Life of Rosa Parks

  by Riché D. Richardson

  A brief video examines Rosa Park's work as a racial justice activist before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/13/2020
  

  Once a Symbol of Desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ School now Reflects another Battle Engulfing Public Education

  by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator and Meg White

  The New Orleans school integrated by Ruby Bridges is now operated by a private charter school company, part of a trend that three education scholars say jeopardizes the survival of the entire system of public education in the United States.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/17/2020
  

  Online Book Talk with Author Garrett Felber on The Nation of Islam and Mass Incercaration (11/20)

  Garrett Felber's book takes a new look at the Nation of Islam and reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on school desegregation and voting rights.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/13/2020
  

  Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him

  Al Howard, a Black NYPD officer, was able to save Dr. King from a stabbing in a New York department store in 1958, potentially changing the course of history.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/7/2020
  

  60 Years Later, Ruby Bridges Tells Her Story In 'This Is Your Time'

  Ruby Bridges, whose integration of New Orleans Schools in 1960 was captured by Norman Rockwell, has written a children's history book about her experiences.