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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 ...
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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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 ...
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Student Protesters
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and participating in the university's first substantial protest against American involvement in Vietnam in 1963. If there was a cause and a chance to ...
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Bloody Sunday: Remembering The Fight For Freedom 60 Years Later
The efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the southern states were noteworthy as there existed the tendrils of ...
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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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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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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 Southern Christian Leadership Conference special projects director Hosea ...