civil rights

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• SOURCE: Watch The Yard
  5/22/2020
  

  The Story Of How The First White Member Of Delta Sigma Theta Was A Segregationist’s Worst Nightmare

  Joan Trumpauer Mulholland joined the Freedom Riders in 1961, served a sentence at the notorious Parchman Farm prison, and enrolled at historically Black Tougalou College, where she joined the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and continued civil rights activism in Jackson, MS.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  5/25/2020
  

  From Civil Rights to COVID-19: ‘Without Truth, You Don’t Have Justice’

  Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell has deepened the public memory of the Civil Rights Era. His reporting offers important lessons for today.

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  5/24/2020
  

  Remembering Ray Eurquhart, a Lifelong Activist Radicalized in the Military

  Ray Eurquhart developed as an activist by organizing his fellow Air Force personnel during his Vietnam-era service, bringing the demands of civil rights movements into the military.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/23/2020
  

  You Should Know More About A. Philip Randolph, One of America’s Greatest Socialists

  As the Left attempts to chart a new course in the wake of the Bernie Sanders campaign, there’s no better time to learn from America’s most underrated socialist, labor leader, and civil rights legend, A. Philip Randolph.

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  5/19/2020
  

  Montgomery Freedom Rides Museum To Celebrate Anniversary on Facebook, 5/20-21

  The Montgomery Freedom Rides Museum is closed due to COVID-19. They are hosting observations of the anniversary of th 1961 civil rights action on their facebook page through Thursday, 5/21. 

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Classical Voice
  5/18/2020
  

  A New Biography of Odetta Reveals a Difficult Life Well Sung

  Ian Zack's biography of the singer Odetta reveals a great deal about the limits racism and sexism imposed on her career and the limited terms on which she was accepted by white audiences.

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• SOURCE: BET
  5/19/2020
  

  A New Documentary On Opera Singer Marian Anderson Is Coming To PBS

  A new PBS documentary will commemorate singer Marian Anderson's voice and her activism.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/15/2020
  

  Steeped in the Blood: On The May 15th, 1970 Jackson State Killings

  Nancy K. Bristow's new work "Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order and the 1970 Shooting at Jackson State College" is only the second book-length source on the subject.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/16/2020
  

  Award for NC Historian’s Book about Mississippi City

  A Los Angeles cultural and publishing nonprofit is giving its 10th annual book award to a University of North Carolina historian’s account of civil rights in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  5/13/2020
  

  Bakari Sellers on a Life Shaped by the Rural South's Civil Rights Movement

  "One of the things that I put in the book is something that was an integral part of my upbringing: My dad always taught me that heroes walk among us."

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• SOURCE: KOB4
  5/12/2020
  

  Civic Leader Fred L. Davis Dies in Memphis; Marched with MLK

  Davis was a businessman and civic leader who supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/10/2020
  

  In Ahmaud Arbery’s Hometown, Pain, Anger and Pride in a Shared Racial History

  Brunswick, Ga., gained national attention during the civil rights era for the way black and white leaders had worked together to integrate peacefully.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/12/2020
  

  ‘Steeped in the Blood of Racism’

  "[Jackson State] reflects so many themes in the history of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans."

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• SOURCE: LAist
  5/4/2020
  

  The Legacy of Bobby Lee Verdugo, A Leader Of East LA Walkouts

  Verdugo, who became one of the founders of the Chicano student movement and spent much of his life mentoring youth, died Friday. He was 69.

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  5/5/2020
  

  NPR podcast ‘White Lies’ named Pulitzer Prize finalist

  The NPR Podcast about the murder of Rev. James Reeb, the Unitarian minister and civil rights activist who traveled to Selma, Ala. to support the fight for black voting rights in the South, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/3/2020
  

  We Are Losing a Generation of Civil-Rights Memories

  America’s response to the pandemic harkens back to ugly times in our country’s history. But to recognize that, we need to know our elders’ stories.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/4/2020
  

  How Martin Luther King Jr.'s Groundless Traffic Ticket Changed History's Course

  by Michael Warren

  The incident, that took place on this day 60 years ago, proved to be the catalyst for electoral change.

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• SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
  5/4/2020
  

  Ida B. Wells Honored with Posthumous Pulitzer

  Ida B. Wells's pioneering role as a journalist on the front lines of struggle against racist terrorism at the nadir of American race relations was posthumously recognized with a Pulitzer Prize yesterday. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/27/2020
  

  Detroit Students Have a Constitutional Right to Literacy, Court Rules

  A major ruling in a lawsuit involving the Detroit public schools comes at a time when school shutdowns are expected to affect poor children most adversely.

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• SOURCE: Click2Houston
  4/27/2020
  

  NAACP Houston Condemns City Council Member Over Rosa Parks Reference

  Councilman Michael Kubosh compared the violation of social distancing orders to the actions of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.