Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet
On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two
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Civil Rights Movement
Malcolm X, MLK, and the Call for a Cultural Revolution
Both Minister Malcolm X and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. are oftentimes referred to as civil rights activists. Peniel E.
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Panthers, Communists, Black Nationalists, and Liberals in Southern California
This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s The Urban Rebellions of the 1960s
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A Black Woman’s Activism in Postwar (West) Germany
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” In the aftermath of the
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Education and Liberation: A CBFS Conversation
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
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