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Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619

Martin Luther King, Jr. being Interviewed, with Coretta Scott King next to him, October 20, 1965 (Wikimedia Commons) Throughout

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

The recent passing of Bob Moses offers a quiet moment to consider the varied lessons intellectual historians—and others—should take from