civil rights

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/30/2020
  

  Records in 1946 Lynching Case Must Remain Sealed, Court Rules

  No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  3/28/2020
  

  Civil Rights Icon Rev. Joseph Lowery Has Died

  Lowery remained committed to social justice — from fighting racism to speaking out against income inequality — throughout his life.

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• SOURCE: Buzzfeed
  3/7/2020
  

  Inside The Museum Preserving Selma, Alabama's Complicated History

  "The history here is so deep and I’ve got a little bit of everything here to tell its story. "

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3/6/2020
  

  A 1963 Klan Bombing Killed Her Sister and Blinded Her. Now She Wants Restitution.

  Sarah Collins Rudolph, who survived the 1963 church bombing that killed her sister and three other girls, wants restitution and an apology for what she’s suffered.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/29/2020
  

  The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides'

  This episode of the NPR podcast "Code Switch" discusses the forgotten history of a segregationist scheme.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  2/27/2020
  

  Joyce Ladner Used Her Stories to Raise Awareness of the Civil Rights Movement. Now, She’s Telling Them in a New Way

  “I hope the younger students understand they can do something about conditions they don’t think should exist,” Ladner says. “There’s an activist in all of us if you tap into it.”

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• 3/1/2020
  

  When Anti-Lynching Law Was a Tool of Oppression

  by Guy Lancaster

  Arkansas used its ostensible “anti-lynching” law to transform the “bad violence” of the mob into the “good violence” of the state, to transform lynching into officially sanctioned execution.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  2/20/20
  

  How the Black Power Movement Influenced the Civil Rights Movement

  Even after the Black Power movement’s decline in the late 1970s, its impact would continue to be felt for generations to come.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/5/20
  

  Decades after his arrest for having sex with men, a gay civil rights leader is pardoned

  On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued a posthumous pardon for Rustin.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  1/30/20
  

  The Three Civil Rights–Era Leaders Who Warned of Computers and Racism

  by Charlton McIlwain

  More than 50 years later, will the U.S.—and Silicon Valley—hear their message?

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• SOURCE: Washignton Post
  1/21/20
  

  Arrested for having sex with men, this gay civil rights leader could finally be pardoned in California

  A decade before Bayard Rustin became a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, the civil rights activist was booked into a Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of “lewd vagrancy.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/8/20
  

  The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement: Marcia Chatelain's Latest Book Reviewed

  In “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America,” Marcia Chatelain has written a smart and capacious history suggesting that McDonald’s should summon all of those thoughts, and then some.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/19/19
  

  Jack O’Dell, King Aide Fired Over Communist Past, Dies at 96

  He worked on fund-raising and voter registration for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Then President Kennedy insisted on his dismissal.

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/11/19
  

  Montgomery, Ala., Was a Hub of the Slave Trade and a Center of the Civil Rights Movement. It's About to Swear in Its First Black Mayor

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Montgomery, Alabama elects its first African American Mayor.  

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 11/13/19
  

  The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

  by Adam Serwer

  "The idea that we’re currently experiencing something like the nadir of American civility ignores the turmoil that has traditionally characterized the nation’s politics, and the comparatively low level of political violence today despite the animosity of the moment." Serwer cites historian Manisha Sinha.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 6, 2019
  

  Martin Luther King Jr.’s name removed from historic street by Kansas City voters

  Voters agreed to remove Martin Luther King's name from city street signs.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/7/19
  

  Why Popeyes markets its chicken sandwich to African Americans

  by Marcia Chatelain

  Popeyes has long cultivated a black customer base — which has positive and negative ramifications.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 4, 2019
  

  White supremacists gathered at Emmett Till’s bulletproof memorial to shoot a video

  White supremacists visited Emmett Till's memorial causing dismay to many.  

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  10/31/19
  

  High School AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims After Lobbying Congress

  by Ethan Ehrenhaft

  An AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims

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• 10/29/19
  

  Throwing Away the “Electability” Argument

  by Matthew Crawford

  There is no historical basis for the idea that women and minority candidates aren’t electable.