Search Results for: Civil War

The Legacy of Berkeley High School’s Black Student Union

January 10, 2018January 15, 2018 Aaron Fountain #StudentActivismForum, Activism, black protest, Malcolm X, teaching

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The Black Student Union (BSU) of Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California

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Black Student Power in Boston

January 9, 2018January 13, 2018 Tess Bundy #StudentActivismForum, black protest, Black Studies, Boston, education, student activism, youth

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates

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Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

January 8, 2018January 13, 2018 Jon Hale #StudentActivismForum, civil rights, criminal justice system, law, racism, segregation, South, student activism

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. High school student activism in Mississippi during the 1960s highlights the overlooked

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Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life

January 5, 2018January 8, 2018 Matthew Teutsch black politics, Black women, civil rights, lynching, Racial Violence, segregation

Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I

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Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A New Book on the Idea of Reparations

January 5, 2018January 8, 2018 Julie Hawks reparations

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

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