Search Results for: civil rights movement

Using MLK to Quell Outrage Distorts His Legacy

June 8, 2020June 7, 2020 Jeanne Theoharis civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr., policing, Resistance

Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of

Read more

Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC

April 30, 2020April 26, 2020 R. Drew Smith Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, religion

Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and

Read more

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

Read more

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

Read more

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

Read more