Search Results for: Civil Rights Movement

Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement

October 5, 2021October 4, 2021 Brandon K. Winford black protest, Civil Rights Movement, education

The 1960 sit-in movement that began in Greensboro on February 1 is a familiar story when it comes to Black

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For Generations, Black People have led Global Antiracist Movements

March 17, 2021March 8, 2021 Brenda Gayle Plummer

This year’s Black History Month comes in the aftermath of last summer’s global uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd.

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How State Surveillance Undermines Black Freedom Movements

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Nishani Frazier Black Power, carceral state, Malcolm X

Ray Wood was known to me only in family lore I’d forgotten. CORE scholar L. E. J. Rachell and James

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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

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Prisoners’ Rights, Resistance, and the Law

January 13, 2021January 10, 2021 Cheryl D. Hicks #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert Chase’s compelling book, We

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