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The ability to vote, the freedom to attend school and have a job, the independence to be exactly who you are. These righ
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Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights cla
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The story of the Civil Rights Movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the
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Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently
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From the fourteenth century to the twenty-first, the of the passport adds a vital perspective to the understanding of wo
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How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracy In the post–civil rights era, wide-ran
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Whitney M. Young, Jr., the charismatic executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, bridged the wo
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"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the underst
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"Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America recounts the extraordi
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Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest i
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