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#MLKsoundtrack 2016: A Civil Rights Soundtrack

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 Rhon Manigault-Bryant civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., music

It is not uncommon for AAIHS bloggers to provide syllabi of resources on a particular subject. I am diverging from

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Another symbol of the Confederacy falls

October 28, 2015October 31, 2015 Patrick Rael Jefferson Davis

Bowdoin College recently declared that it will no longer offer the Jefferson Davis Award to a student excelling in constitutional

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Removing the Confederate Flag, But Not Forgetting Its Legacy

July 2, 2015 Noelle Trent

            Today is the birthday of noted civil rights activists Medgar Evers and Thurgood Marshall.

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Confederate Flags in the Jim Crow North

July 1, 2015October 24, 2017 Brian Purnell

Photo: Opponents of local civil rights activists raise a Confederate flag in the Bronx, July 1963 *** Over the years,

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Author Interview: Lindsey R. Swindall on Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 Chris Cameron

Today’s guest post comes from Phillip Luke Sinitiere, currently a professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies, a

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