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Mollie Moon and Funding the Civil Rights Movement

January 10, 2024January 1, 2024 Mickell Carter biography, Civil Rights Movement, Fundraising, Molly Moon, Review

Elegance. Galas. Balls. Fashion shows. Fine dining. When we think about the Civil Rights Movement these words typically do not

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Septima Clark and the Fight for Civil Rights

October 26, 2023October 17, 2023 Tara Kirton Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, education

There are many names synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, but there are countless lesser-known individuals who played a critical

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W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War: An Interview with Chad L. Williams

August 29, 2023August 20, 2023 Brandon James Render W.E.B. Du Bois

This is an interview with Black Perspectives blogger Brandon James Render, an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the

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CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, Civil Rights Movement

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in the spring of 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer along with a racially diverse group

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Howard Thurman and the Problem of Faithlessness

April 18, 2023April 16, 2023 D'Ondre Swails #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1949, Christian mystic and theologian Howard

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