Search Results for: civil rights movement

CORE’s Struggle for Fair Housing Rights in LA

March 1, 2022February 28, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, black protest, Civil Rights Movement

It has been 60 years since the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) targeted racially segregated housing in Los Angeles. Although

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Tuskegee’s Civilizing Mission

February 21, 2022February 20, 2022 Kenneth Smith black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

From his academic career at the Hampton Institute (1872-1875) in Virginia until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington preached

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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement

October 5, 2021October 4, 2021 Brandon K. Winford black protest, Civil Rights Movement, education

The 1960 sit-in movement that began in Greensboro on February 1 is a familiar story when it comes to Black

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For Generations, Black People have led Global Antiracist Movements

March 17, 2021March 8, 2021 Brenda Gayle Plummer

This year’s Black History Month comes in the aftermath of last summer’s global uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd.

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