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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.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/20/2020
The ‘Profoundly Radical’ Message of Earth Day’s First Organizer
Denis Hayes organized the first Earth Day in 1970. Since then, he has continued fighting for environmental justice.
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SOURCE: History.com
2/7/20
The MLK Graphic Novel That Inspired Generations of Civil Rights Activists
The comic book that helped spark a generation of young civil rights protestors did not feature superheroes, but a 42-year-old seamstress and a 26-year-old Baptist pastor.
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10/27/19
What Can Historians Do? An Update from Historians for Peace and Democracy
by Margaret Power and Kevin Young
We welcome everyone who agrees with our mission, whether professional historians, K-12 teachers, or non-historians with an interest in putting history at the service of movements for peace, democracy, and justice.
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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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SOURCE: NY Times
8/14/19
America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.
by Jamelle Bouie
Featuring the work of historian Manisha Sinha.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/1/9
How music took down Puerto Rico’s governor
by Verónica Dávila and Marisol LeBrón
Underground music overcame censors to gain popularity and political power.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
7/20/19
Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin
by Nell Painter
It can’t be left to black Americans alone to resist the president’s racism. Citizens of all colours need to resist, and embrace activism.
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