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SOURCE: NY Times
11/19/19
Jack O’Dell, King Aide Fired Over Communist Past, Dies at 96
He worked on fund-raising and voter registration for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Then President Kennedy insisted on his dismissal.
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SOURCE: Time
11/11/19
Montgomery, Ala., Was a Hub of the Slave Trade and a Center of the Civil Rights Movement. It's About to Swear in Its First Black Mayor
by Olivia B. Waxman
Montgomery, Alabama elects its first African American Mayor.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
Accessed 11/13/19
The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.
by Adam Serwer
"The idea that we’re currently experiencing something like the nadir of American civility ignores the turmoil that has traditionally characterized the nation’s politics, and the comparatively low level of political violence today despite the animosity of the moment." Serwer cites historian Manisha Sinha.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
November 6, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr.’s name removed from historic street by Kansas City voters
Voters agreed to remove Martin Luther King's name from city street signs.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/7/19
Why Popeyes markets its chicken sandwich to African Americans
by Marcia Chatelain
Popeyes has long cultivated a black customer base — which has positive and negative ramifications.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
November 4, 2019
White supremacists gathered at Emmett Till’s bulletproof memorial to shoot a video
White supremacists visited Emmett Till's memorial causing dismay to many.
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
10/31/19
High School AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims After Lobbying Congress
by Ethan Ehrenhaft
An AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims
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10/29/19
Throwing Away the “Electability” Argument
by Matthew Crawford
There is no historical basis for the idea that women and minority candidates aren’t electable.
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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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