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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: A New Book on the Civil Rights Movement

January 22, 2018January 25, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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You Can’t Eat Freedom: A New Book on Rural South Activism after the Civil Rights Movement

October 3, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi

This post is part of a recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: A New Book in Civil Rights History

May 31, 2019June 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, labor, Resistance

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

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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa

May 30, 2017June 2, 2017 Marius Kothor black nationalism, civil rights, colonialism, West Africa

As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these

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Ella Jenkins and Sonic Civil Rights Pedagogy

April 25, 2025April 24, 2025 Gayle F. Wald 2 Comments

Ella Jenkins sat smiling in her wheelchair, ready to greet her public. It was noon on August 4, 2024, and

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