civil rights

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• 2/10/19
  

  Why the Congress of Racial Equality Has Been Forgotten – And Why It Still Matters Today

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  We need to go back to CORE to have a better understanding of the ongoing antiracist movement.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/31/19
  

  How Howard Thurman met Gandhi and brought nonviolence to the civil rights movement

  by Walter E. Fluker

  Thurman played an important role in the civil rights struggle as a key mentor to many leaders of the movement, including Martin Luther King Jr., among others.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  1/21/19
  

  On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, remembering the women civil rights leaders left out of spotlight

  “Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/18/19
  

  'I Gave Up Hope': As Girls, They Were Jailed In Squalor For Protesting Segregation

  The day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech in August 1963, a lesser known moment in civil rights history was unfolding in southern Georgia.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/17/19
  

  Robert J. Brown Worked With Both MLK and Nixon. Here’s What He Says Went on Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

  The civil rights power broker talks about his new memoir and working with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/15/19
  

  The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

  by Mike Jirik

  The student protests against anti-black racism at UNC Chapel Hill are part of a long history of student protest against racism that includes individuals like John Brown Russwurm. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/12/19
  

  John Salter Jr., demonstrator in 1963 Mississippi lunch-counter sit-in and professor, dies at 84

  Mr. Salter — as he was known throughout his career as an activist and academic — died Jan. 7 at his home in Pocatello, Idaho, at age 84.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  1/5/19
  

  'Unexampled Courage' Is The Civil Rights Book About the 1940s You Need to Read Now

  This true story shows just how much we depend on the bravery of the few to right the wrongs of the many.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/6/19
  

  In Newly Found Audio, Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin Says Coming Out 'Was An Absolute Necessity'

  The rare tape was provided by Rustin's surviving partner who preserved a library of backup recordings. Those recordings have helped foster a better understanding of the gay icon — one that Marcus concedes was absent from his civil rights education.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/31/18
  

  Journalist Jerry Mitchell Discusses Decades Investigating Civil Rights Era Killings

  NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jerry Mitchell of the Clarion Ledger about his 30-year career in investigative journalism, as well as his upcoming projects.

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• SOURCE: The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)
  12-11-2018
  

  The Civil Rights Movement for Intellectual Change

  by Joshua Clark Davis

  More than half a century since the 1960s, scholars and citizens alike continue to grapple with how our country should remember the civil rights movement.

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• SOURCE: The Chicago Sun-Times
  12-8-2018
  

  Timuel Black — historian and civil rights activist — reflects on his life

  The elder statesman and griot of Chicago’s black community is 100 years old.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9-25-18
  

  Stefan M. Bradley discusses his new book about history of black activist challenges to the Ivy League

  What he found was that black students wanted more than admittance; they wanted to change the institutions.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-20-18
  

  'Not just in the US': amateur historian highlights Canada's forgotten racism

  Archives shed light on incidents of racial discrimination and the country’s civil rights pioneers.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-16-18
  

  How Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ became an anthem for civil rights and feminism

  Franklin, then just 24 years old, infused it with a soulful and revolutionary demand, a declaration of independence that was unapologetic, uncompromising and unflinching.

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• SOURCE: Twitter
  7-27-18
  

  No, the GOP wasn't the party of civil rights in the 1960s

  by Kevin Kruse

  "If you have to go back to the 1860s or even the 1960s to claim the "party of civil rights" mantle, you're clearly grasping at straws."

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• 7/8/18
  

  Another Hero of the Civil Rights Movement You Probably Never Heard of (But Should Have)

  by Tula Connell

  Her name was Vel Phillips. She was a path breaker in Wisconsin. She just died.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-29-18
  

  Thomas Sugrue takes to the NYT to set the record straight about the Civil Rights Movement’s lesson for today’s protesters

  by Thomas J. Sugrue

  The lesson? To succeed you often have to be uncivil.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-26-18
  

  Found: Rosa Parks’s Arrest Warrant, and More Traces of Civil Rights History

  When the Montgomery bus boycott electrified the struggle against segregation, it was all recorded in appeals bonds, court motions and $10 fines. A forgotten trove has turned up in a courthouse vault.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-5-18
  

  White politicians were coercing African-Americans to vote long before civil rights

  by Richard Johnson

  Donald Trump’s recent comments about African-American voters reflect his historical ignorance, but also call attention to an overlooked chapter of US racial history.