Picturing Black History

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Steve Conn

Steve Conn is co-editor of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and W. E. Smith Professor of History, Miami University.

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Gil Scott-Heron: “Closer to Langston Hughes than Huey Newton”

The influence of writer and musician Gil Scott-Heron is widely felt. However, assessing his legacy involves figuring out just what kind of artist he was.

Aerial shot of some of the more than 100,000 people demonstrating in protest of racial discrimination, jam Woodward Avenue, from curb to curb in a huge, but orderly "Walk to Freedom." Most of the marchers entered and surrounded Cobo Hall and Arena to hear Martin Luther King Junior speak.

Dreaming in Detroit

For one day in June 1963 Detroit was the center of the civil rights movement.

Steve Conn

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Gil Scott-Heron: “Closer to Langston Hughes than Huey Newton”

Dreaming in Detroit

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