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The King of Atlanta: Martin Luther King Jr. and Public Memory

April 3, 2018April 7, 2018 Maurice J. Hobson Activism, Atlanta, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. On April 4th, the world

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Black Student Power in Boston

January 9, 2018January 13, 2018 Tess Bundy #StudentActivismForum, black protest, Black Studies, Boston, education, student activism, youth

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates

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Online Forum: A History of Student Activism

December 30, 2017January 8, 2018 AAIHS Editors #StudentActivismForum, civil rights, student activism, youth

January 8–12, 2018 A line of African American students walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during

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Charter Schools and the Black Independent School Movement

October 23, 2017October 25, 2017 Raven Moses Activism, black nationalism, teaching

In October 2016, the NAACP issued a formal statement advocating a national cessation of charter school expansion pending increased oversight

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Black Radicalism and the “Tuition-Free” University

October 12, 2017October 16, 2017 Tyler Parry 2016 Presidential Election, Bernie Sanders, Constitution, freedom, integration, South Carolina

During the presidential primaries of 2016, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders promoted a policy that, for many, was a radical idea.

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