John Potts and Radical Student Activism
Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he
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Septima Clark and the Fight for Civil Rights
There are many names synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, but there are countless lesser-known individuals who played a critical
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Dr. Joanne Martin’s Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Across America, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is known for highlighting unvarnished accounts of African American History from
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Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics
Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate
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Black Student Activism and the Origins of the Stanford Canon Debate
In the late 1980s, the Stanford University Black Student Union stood at the center of a controversy involving the school’s
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