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NOLA Resistance Oral History Project
This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.
via
The Historic New Orleans Collection
on
June 1, 2020
The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides'
In 1962, tricked black Southerners into migrating north and transformed families' lives forever.
by
Gabrielle Emanuel
via
NPR
on
February 29, 2020
A Cool Dip & A Little Dignity
In 1961, two African-American men decided to go swimming at a whites-only Nashville pool. In response, the city closed all its public pools — for three years.
by
Erin E. Tocknell
via
The Bitter Southerner
on
July 2, 2018
What the Civil Rights Movement Has to Do With Denim
The history of blue jeans has been whitewashed.
by
Marlen Komar
via
Racked
on
October 30, 2017
Black Lives Matter and America’s Long History of Resisting Civil Rights Protesters
The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.
by
Elahe Izadi
via
Washington Post
on
April 19, 2016
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology.”
by
Clint Smith
via
The Atlantic
on
April 21, 2025
Racist Busing Rides Again
Moving migrants from Texas to Democratic strongholds is not new. The Reverse Freedom Rides of the 1960s hold lessons for activists of today.
by
Matthew van Meter
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The Texas Observer
on
September 28, 2022
The Day The Civil-Rights Movement Changed
What my father saw in Mississippi.
by
David Dennis Jr.
via
The Atlantic
on
May 4, 2022
The Interstates: Planned Violence And The Need For Truth And Reconciliation
It is time to reckon with America’s racist legacy of Interstate Highway planning and engineering.
by
Rebecca Retzlaff
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Jocelyn Zanzot
via
The Metropole
on
April 7, 2021
What It Was Like to Fly as a Black Traveler in the Jim Crow Era
Airlines sometimes bumped Black passengers off of flights to make room for white travelers, even during refueling stops.
by
Mia Bay
via
Condé Nast Traveler
on
March 23, 2021
What Julian Bond Taught Me About Politics and Power
Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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Black Perspectives
on
January 27, 2021
Radical Movements in 1960s L.A.
A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.
by
Ryan Reft
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The Metropole
on
January 11, 2021
The Way of John Lewis
Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”
by
Cynthia Tucker
via
The Bitter Southerner
on
June 23, 2020
The Struggle to Abolish the Police Is Not New
Prison and police abolition were key to the thinking of many midcentury civil rights activists. Understanding why can help us ask for change in our own time.
by
Garrett Felber
via
Boston Review
on
June 8, 2020
It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day
Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
by
Mark Engler
via
The Nation
on
January 17, 2020
Robert F. Kennedy Is Remembered as a Liberal Icon. Here's the Truth About His Politics
For many American liberals, RFK became a symbol of not just a better past, but also a better future that might have been.
by
David E. Kaiser
via
TIME
on
June 5, 2018
80 Days That Changed America
Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.
by
Joan Walsh
via
The Nation
on
April 23, 2018
When the Revolution Was Televised
MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.
by
Alexis C. Madrigal
via
The Atlantic
on
April 1, 2018
Memories of Mississippi
SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.
by
Danny Lyon
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New York Review of Books
on
January 10, 2018
Simeon Booker, Intrepid Chronicler of Civil Rights Struggle for Jet and Ebony, Dies at 99
He risked his life to expose Emmett Till’s death and the Freedom Rides to a national audience.
by
Emily Langer
via
Washington Post
on
December 10, 2017
The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks
On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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Jeremy Scahill
via
The Intercept
on
October 8, 2017
Why Students Are Ignorant About The Civil Rights Movement
Mississippi’s outdated textbooks teach an abbreviated version of civil rights, undermining the state’s new ‘innovative’ standards.
by
Sierra Mannie
via
The Hechinger Report
on
October 1, 2017
Restarting the Civil Rights Movement
Is there still a civil rights movement?
by
E. R. Shipp
via
The Root
on
December 19, 2010
The House of the Prophet
Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.
by
Kwame Anthony Appiah
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 11, 2002
John Lewis's American Odyssey
The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.
by
Sean Wilentz
via
The New Republic
on
July 1, 1996
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