Search Results for: civil rights era

The “Families’ Cause” in the Post-Civil War Era

March 24, 2021April 18, 2021 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. race, racism, white supremacy

“In spite of all that may be said of the new South and its willingness to set the issues of

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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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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to his Liberal Allies

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis

“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in the spring

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Runaway Slaves To Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

January 28, 2021January 26, 2021 Nakia D. Parker African Diaspora, Gender, Resistance, slavery, South

In May 2020, the New York Times published a story about the discovery of three skulls unearthed from a grave

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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

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