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How Paul Robeson sang to 35,000 Canadians without crossing the border
CORE’s Freedom Rides solidified its centrality to desegregation efforts during the Civil Rights Movement
Despite systemic racism, Black soldiers forced their way into parachute training and took one major step toward integration.
The Civil Rights Movement owes much to the students who boldly sat down at segregated lunch counters
Black children played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement
An Easter Sermon with Dr. Benjamin E. Mays at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC
Galvanized by new electoral laws after the Civil War, thousands of Black men ran for public office both locally and nationally.
Josiah T. Walls was one of them.
The tumultuous days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The struggle of university students to build Black Studies on campus, in their communities, and throughout the nation.
What constitutes terrorism? How the Philadelphia police turned a neighborhood to ashes and the desecration of the remains of the dead that followed.
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