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On the Limits of Boycotts as a Political Tool

March 14, 2018March 19, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, South Africa

Corporate boycotts made headlines for the second time since October in the wake of the recent high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: A New Book on the Civil Rights Movement

January 22, 2018January 25, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr.

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”

January 12, 2018January 15, 2018 Kera Lovell #StudentActivismForum, black feminism, student activism

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls

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The FBI and the Mischaracterization of Bayard Rustin

December 7, 2017December 11, 2017 Nishani Frazier Activism, Historical Memory, Resistance

On November 22, Muckrock.com published a disturbing article claiming that Bayard Rustin “was working for the CIA.”  The essay created

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The Promise of Patriarchy: A New Book on Women and the Nation of Islam

October 9, 2017October 12, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Nation of Islam

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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