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Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as

*This is a transcript of a speech prepared by historian Russell Rickford for a protest against Former Vice President Dick

One of the most painful and haunting images that I recall from Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising:

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls

This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The sight of National Guard tanks rolling down the streets of Detroit