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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his

In 1969, Black Power advocate Floyd McKissick announced plans to develop Soul City, a multiracial community in rural Warren County,

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking Against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, April 27, 1967 (Wikimedia Commons)