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• SOURCE: So Let's Talk About...
  10/27/2020
  

  Today I Learned: Gloria Richardson is Still Alive

  "President John F. Kennedy told protestors in Dorchester County to stand down. Gloria Richardson told JFK he could go to hell."

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/28/2020
  

  How the Greensboro Four Sit-In Sparked a Movement

  Scholars including Jeanne Theoharis and Will Guzmán describe the roots and impact of the 1960 Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2020
  

  When I was 12, John Lewis Talked my Mom into Letting Me March with Him

  Because of Lewis, I got my first chance to protest my city’s and region’s racist policies and practices — from where we could eat, work, live, go to school, swim, party, play sports and even use the taxpayer-funded public restrooms.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/21/2020
  

  John Lewis’ Fight for Equality Was Never Limited to Just the United States

  by Keisha N. Blain

  By linking national concerns to global ones, John Lewis compelled others to see that the problems of racism and white supremacy were not contained within U.S. borders.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/18/2020
  

  Who Were the Freedom Riders?

  Representative John Lewis was among the 13 original Freedom Riders, who encountered violence and resistance as they rode buses across the South, challenging the nation’s segregation laws.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/19/2020
  

  The Essential and Enduring Strength of John Lewis

  by Jelani Cobb

  "Lewis, like his peers Andrew Young, Marion Barry, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, transitioned into elected office as the post from which he would undertake this work. It was not an easy undertaking."

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• SOURCE: The New York Review of Books
  4/5/2020
  

  Pandemic Journal, March 30–April 5

  Ten New York Review writers document their experiences with the coronavirus from all over the globe.