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Reviving Freedom Schools: ASALH’s fight to counter book bans and censored history
ASALH's Freedom Schools aim to combat attempts to restrict the teaching of Black history by offering a quality education in ...
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Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’
Lewis was a 23-year-old firebrand, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, when he joined King and four other civil rights leaders at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York to plan ...
A fearful Penn ditches DEI. That’s not the way of leaders.
Watching Penn rescinding admissions, erasing references to diversity, and deleting inclusive language is like watching ...
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Dr. Jessica Johnson: ‘Bloody Sunday’ still relevant
The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by ...
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60 Years After Bloody Sunday, We Have Not Completely Overcome
On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and ...
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Fannie Lou Hamer
On August 31, 1962, not long after attending a voting rights meeting organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Hamer joined 17 of her neighbors on a bus to Indianola ...
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Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a visiting professor at Brown University's Department of Africana Studies and a former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Guns made civil ...