civil rights

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10/20/2020
  

  Baseball’s Race Problem

  by Gene Seymour

  Following comedian Chris Rock's observations, Gene Seymour argues that baseball is out of step with a multicultural America and ruled by traditions and unwritten rules that limit its appeal outside of White America. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/20/2020
  

  We All Think History Will Be on Our Side. Here's Why We Shouldn't

  by Priya Satia

  We would do better to listen to today’s historians in order to understand how we got here and recover other guides to conscience, not just look to future historians for consolation.

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• SOURCE: The Bitter Southerner
  10/14/2020
  

  Premiere: Mississippi Justice

  The Bitter Southerner magazine and PBS's The American Experience partner on a short film that examines the plot to murder the civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in 1964. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/13/2020
  

  Bernard Cohen, Lawyer Who Won Victory for Interracial Marriage in Loving V. Virginia, Dies at 86

  “I knew it was going to be a landmark case,” Mr. Cohen told the Associated Press in 1992. “And I definitely thought there was something serendipitous about the fact that the case would be called Loving vs. the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

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• SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader
  10/6/2020
  

  In Louisville, Looking to Life-Changing Past Civil Rights Protests to Move Forward

  Historian Tracy E. K'Meyer says that, despite the mutual misgivings of older and younger activists, Louisville's legacy of civil rights protests in the 1960s is highly influential today as activists seek justice and policing reform in the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor. 

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• 10/18/2020
  

  "Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone and Every Close Eye Ain’t Shut": Black Georgians' Memories and Election Unease

  by Alicia K. Jackson

  The unspoken realities of past voter suppression resonate in the present experience of many Black Georgians.

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• 10/12/2020
  

  My Memories of Voter Suppression

  by Lawrence Wittner

  After witnessing firsthand the depth of struggle needed to secure the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the author says the 2013 Supreme Court decision to gut the VRA and subsequent acts by state governments to suppress the vote "betray the most basic principle of democracy."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/2020
  

  Remembering Wilma Rudolph, the “Queen of the Olympics”

  by Scott N. Brooks and Aram Goudsouzian

  "Maybe most important, Rudolph was a real Black woman, not a stereotype. The Olympics lent her a special platform at a unique moment in American history, and Rudolph capitalized upon it with grace."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/3/2020
  

  ‘Fifth Girl’ in 1963 Church Bombing Gets an Apology From Alabama’s Governor

  Sarah Collins Rudolph has long argued that officials of the state of Alabama incited racial hatred that encouraged the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, and that they must compensate her as a culpable party.

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• SOURCE: San Antonio Express-News
  9/22/2020
  

  Alonso Perales May be the Most Important Mexican American Civil Rights Figure that No One Knows

  Alonso Perales may be one of the most influential Mexican Americans of the 20th century who’s still relatively unknown; historian Cynthia Orozco hopes to correct that. 

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• SOURCE: Iowa Public Radio
  9/23/2020
  

  “The White Man Who Stayed” Tells A Story Of Activism During The Civil Rights Era (audio)

  Poet James Autry's newest book tells the story of his cousin, a white man who remained in Mississippi as a liberal advocate for integration and justice. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/20/2020
  

  Robert S. Graetz, Rare White Minister to Back Bus Boycott, Dies at 92

  Robert Graetz was a rare white voice in favor of desegregation and an ally to the organizers of the Montgomery bus boycott. 

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• SOURCE: The Grio
  9/20/2020
  

  ‘Fifth Girl’ In 1963 KKK Church Bombing Seeks Apology, Restitution

  Sarah Collins Rudolph argues that the State of Alabama, in the person of Governor George Wallace, directly incited the racial hatred that led to the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/17/2020
  

  Princeton Admitted Past Racism. Now It Is Under Investigation.

  The Trump administration opened a civil rights investigation into the university after its president acknowledged the role of systemic racism at the school.

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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.