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The Rhetoric and Methods of the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote

December 14, 2018December 24, 2018 Denise Lynn Mississippi, racism, Resistance, South, voting, white supremacy

After attempting to register Black voters, pushing school integration, and challenging segregation in transportation throughout the 1950s, activists in Mississippi

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Black Lives Matter, Black Power, and the Role of White Allies

December 12, 2018December 24, 2018 Say Burgin Activism, black lives matter

The Movement for Black Lives has revived many familiar debates, one of which revolves around the question of the role

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More Than Just Words: Taking Antiracism Seriously

December 10, 2018December 24, 2018 Sasha Turner black intellectual history, race, racism, teaching

From bumper stickers and social media hashtags and memes, to think tanks and think pieces, the concept ‘antiracist’ has saturated

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On the Life of Black Abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass

November 29, 2018December 7, 2018 Leigh Fought Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. “She drew around herself a certain reserve,” Rosetta

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision of American Democracy

November 14, 2018November 19, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, race

Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.

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