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The Culture and Intellectual Climate of the Great Migration

A Movement in Every Direction: A Great Migration Critical Reader is a helpful collection of primary and secondary sources related

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. Across the country, state legislatures and school boards

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great