Search Results for: civil rights era

SNCC and/in the North

March 24, 2020March 18, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Racial Violence, Resistance

This year, one of the most important civil rights movement groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) celebrates the 60th

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Campus Activism and Free Speech at Syracuse University

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 Denise Lynn black protest, freedom, student activism

During the fall 2019 semester, Syracuse University’s (SU) campus in upstate New York was rocked by several racist incidents including

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Power and Policing in New York City

March 18, 2020March 11, 2020 Willie Mack New York, police brutality, police violence, policing

  In New York City over the last few months, issues concerning law enforcement reform have been chaotic to say

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Black Madness and Thinking Resistantly

March 11, 2020March 10, 2020 Christopher Baswell #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, Gender, literature

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness “[D]emonstration and acknowledgment

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The Long Struggle Against Educational Injustice

March 4, 2020March 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black politics, education, education reform, racism, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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