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Echoes of the 1960s: SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

This first summer under the Trump regime resembles the long red-hot summers of the past. It has been filled with

“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political

For someone so prominent, learning about Coretta Scott King’s life and labors apart from those of her late husband is

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Since the day she

During the 1940s and 1950s, a Mississippi Circuit Clerk named Luther Cox gained notoriety for asking potential black voter registration