Search Results for: civil rights movement

Black-Jewish Nostalgia and Black Lives Matter

November 7, 2015 Chris Cameron

The following guest post was written by David Weinfeld. He is a sessional instructor at the Centre for the Study

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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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On the New York Young Lords: An Interview with Darrel Wanzer-Serrano

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Keisha N. Blain Latino/a, New York, Politics, Puerto Rican history

This month, I interviewed Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, the author of an exciting new book entitled The New York Young Lords

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Go for Broke: #WallerCountySyllabus

September 18, 2015September 18, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor

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On the use of “Slave Mistress”

August 21, 2015August 21, 2015 Emily Owens

  The passing of the great civil-rights leader Julian Bond earlier this week ignited a firestorm of activity on Twitter.

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