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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/15/2022
A Teenager Got More Women of Color Represented in the History Curriculum of a Large School District
"Prasidha Padmanabhan, 16, founded WEAR (Women for Education, Advocacy and Rights), a nonprofit with an executive board made up entirely of students."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/26/2021
Do Liberal Activists Need to Reconnect with the Religious Left?
by Julian Zelizer
The rise of conservatism in Christian political engagement and the increasing importance of Israel to many American Jewish organizations should not discourage liberal activists from reviving the legacy of Rabbi Abraham Heschel and interfaith social justice organizing.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
7/14/2021
From the Labor Struggles of the 1930s to Today, the Highlander School has Sought to Make America More Equitable
by Jelani M. Favors
From the Great Depression through the Civil Rights era and beyond, Myles Horton's Highlander Folk School was a rare interracial space for political organizing.
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6/20/2021
Powerline Politics in the 1970s and Today
by Tyler Priest
Environmental activists have forged anti-pipeline alliances with rural landowners using the issue of eminent domain. History shows that this might boomerang if farmers oppose the new electric transmission lines that will be needed to implement green electrification.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
5/20/2021
In Fury We Trust (Review of Sarah Shulman)
Sarah Shulman's book seeks to recover the histories of AIDS activists beyond white gay men, using two decades of oral history work to show the breadth of a coalition including women, lesbians, people of color, drug users, and the incarcerated, who all experienced the stakes of AIDS differently.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/7/2021
The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Organizer Mariame Kaba is one of the leading public intellectuals behind the movement for the abolition of the institutions of policing and prisons and for a politics that imagines more humane alternatives.
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SOURCE: Money on the Left Podcast
5/1/2021
Remaking Radicalism with Dan Berger and Emily M. Hobson
Historians Dan Berger and Emily Hobson discuss their new primary source anthology on grassroots social movements in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/16/2021
Dorothy Pitman Hughes’s Activism Offers a Solution for the Coronavirus Gender Gap
by Laura L. Lovett
Dorothy Pitman Hughes' experience running a community childcare center highlighted not just the needs of working women, but the ways that childcare challenges were connected to all the big issues of the society. If we want a more just society today, Hughes' example and the COVID crisis show us where to look.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2/25/2021
Fight To Vote: The Woman Who Was Key In 'Getting Us The Voting Rights Act'
Historian Carol Anderson explains the contributions of Amelia Boynton to the Selma movement and the erasure of women's organizing work from many histories of the movement.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/8/2020
The Forgotten History of the Radical ‘Elders of the Tribe’
by Susan J. Douglas
The Gray Panthers fought for the civil rights, social services and respect denied to older Americans. But they did so by challenging inequality in ways that sought alliances instead of antagonism between young and old.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
9/9/2020
Scholars on Strike
Scholars in multiple fields have taken part in a virtual teach-in, sharing expertise on racism and justice as part of the #ScholarStrike.
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SOURCE: CNN
9/8/2020
Why We Started the #ScholarStrike
by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon
As American history shows, there are times where the most powerful way that workers can force an issue or work for change is to withhold what others see as their most important feature: their labor.
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9/1/2020
The Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights Announces its Launch, September 3, 2020
A group of historians has launched a new group dedicated to making sure that college students are able to exercise their right to vote.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/7/2020
100 Years Later, These Activists Continue Their Ancestors’ Work
The New York Times highlights a group of contemporary scholars, writers who are direct descendants of leading figures in the movement for women's suffrage and racial equality in voting rights.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/27/2020
Before Stonewall, There Was a Bookstore
by Jim Downs
Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power.
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SOURCE: KTVU
3/22/2020
Local Activists on How this Racial Justice Movement Fits in Oakland's History
Protests on Oakland reflect the energy of young organizers but also a legacy of African American activism. Five community leaders reflect on continuity and change in the city.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
6/17/2020
The Rape Kit’s Secret History
This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/22/2020
What The Older Generations Owe The Young 50 Years After The First Earth Day
by Matthew D. Lassiter
While we cannot commemorate Earth Day 2020 through mass public demonstrations, it is now more urgent than ever to listen to young activists' demands for a safer future and a more just world.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/21/2020
50 Years Later, Earth Day’s Unsolved Problem: How to Build a More Sustainable World
The first celebration called for people to change their relationship with the planet. After a half-century, we’re still figuring out what that means.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/18/2020
As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition
Ms. Mitchell is 47, a historian by training. But her real role is the strategist of the demise of Amazon as we know it.