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Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education
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Untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience
Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education
White people raged against school busing in Louisville, KY (September 1975)
Known as “The Father of Black History,” Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH) in 1915
Blackness, Queerness, and Disco
Black Communists Fought for Jobs and Safety in 1930 Washington, D.C.
How Black Olympians turned a 1968 Olympics Cold War triumph into a momentous Black protest symbol
Los Angeles 1992, policing, and the long history of urban protests in the United States
What do Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) have in common? The internationalism of American civil rights activism.
A July 1964 protest at the United Nations headquarters in New York City began after the murder of 15-year-old African American James Powell by Thomas Gilligan, a white, off-duty police officer.
How a shared love of baseball fostered a meaningful friendship and a spirit of resistance.
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