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CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, Civil Rights Movement

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in the spring of 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer along with a racially diverse group

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In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life

May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 Cheryl X. Dong Activism, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black women

Tupac Shakur wrote  “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love.  The song is an unfiltered

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The Families of the Louisiana Native Guards

April 26, 2023April 25, 2023 Anthony J. Cade II #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Black Family, Civil War, Louisiana, Women

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. On May 1, 1861,

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Black Burials and Civil War Forgetting in Olustee, Florida

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 Barbara A. Gannon #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMilitaryFamilies, racism

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Like so many Civil War battlefields,

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Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited as a Framework for Victory

April 13, 2023April 12, 2023 Eva Bohler #HowardThurman, Christianity, Civil Rights Movement, religion, Theology

This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was a preacher,

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