Mississippi’s Civil Rights Museum: Reflections from a Native Daughter
Several weeks ago, I attended the opening activities for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The museum represents a long-overdue,
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Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement
On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating
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The Hidden History of the Civil Rights Act of 1960
You might be asking: “Was there a Civil Rights Act of 1960?” Yes indeed there was. And it was quite
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Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement
On December 26, 2017, The New York Times published an op-ed by the widely known North Carolinian activist, Rev. William
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Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals
In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of
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