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Before Colin Kaepernick, There Was Eartha Kitt

How the entertainer was blacklisted for standing up to the President.
by Hilal Isler via Medium on June 6, 2018
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Resurrection City, 2.0

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.
by Marisa Chappell on May 12, 2018
Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

1968: Year of Counter-Revolution

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.
by Todd Gitlin via New York Review of Books on May 8, 2018

Photographer George Rodriguez Has Chronicled L.A. in All of Its Glamour and Grit

Rodriguez has captured celebrities in repose and farmworkers on strike.
by Carolina A. Miranda via Los Angeles Times on April 23, 2018

NYC Will Move—But Not Remove—Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Slaves

Some say the decision to move the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims from Central Park to a Brooklyn cemetery is a "slap in the face."
by Kimberly Lawson via Broadly on April 16, 2018
Puerto Rican flag in tatters near smoking buildings.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

Outlining America's complex relationship and shared history with Puerto Rico and questions about sovereignty.
by Amanda Lawson via Origins on April 6, 2018

Martin Luther King: How a Rebel Leader Was Lost to History

Fifty years after his death, King is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?
by Gary Younge via The Guardian on April 4, 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr. was More Radical Than You Think

On the 50th anniversary of his death, it’s time to remember who he really was.
by Ben Passmore via The Nib on April 4, 2018

One Night on the Mountaintop

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.
by Tonyaa Weathersbee via The Bitter Southerner on April 3, 2018
A Black man speaks as other protesters stand around him.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Milwaukee: 200 Nights and a Tragedy

King's visits to Milwaukee highlighted the extent to which the civil rights struggle was a national one.
by Mark Speltz via Black Perspectives on April 2, 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
Striking miners

A Culture of Resistance

The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.
by Chuck Keeney via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 30, 2018

Baldwin’s Lonely Country

After MLK's assassination, James Baldwin attempted to reconcile the divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.
by Ed Pavlic via Boston Review on March 29, 2018
Student protesters at Columbia University in 1968.

“The Whole World Is Watching”: An Oral History of the 1968 Columbia Uprising

In April 1968, students took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world’s attention. Fifty years later, they reflect on what went right and what went wrong.
by Clara Bingham via The Hive on March 26, 2018

The United States & 'The Young and Fearless of Heart'

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.
by Glenn David Brasher via History Headlines on March 25, 2018

The 'Ground Zero Mosque' Controversy Was a Harbinger of Our Times

A preview of Trumpism in 2010 protests against a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan.
by Jason Tebbe via Tropics of Meta on March 21, 2018
Women's liberation movement demonstrating in Washington D.C.

The Waves of Feminism, and Why People Keep Fighting Over Them, Explained

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.
by Constance Grady via Vox on March 20, 2018
Crowd of students demonstrating.

Walkout: In 1960s L.A., Mexican-American High School Students Took Charge

Fifty years ago, teenagers organized a multi-school walkout that galvanized the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles.
by Paula Crisostomo, Teresa Mathew via CityLab on March 15, 2018
Panel of speakers promoting divestment from apartheid South Africa.

On the Limits of Boycotts as a Political Tool

As businesses are pressured to abandon the NRA, one scholar looks at the efficacy of boycotts past.
by Jessica Ann Levy via Black Perspectives on March 14, 2018

A History of Student Walkouts

Student walkouts have changed American history before. Here's how.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on March 14, 2018

How a Jewish Youth Camp Birthed the 1968 East L.A. Chicano Student Walkouts

‘The young Mexican American is tired of waiting for the Promised Land.’
by Gustavo Arellano via Tablet on March 2, 2018

The Kerner Omission

How a landmark report on the 1960s race riots fell short on police reform.
by Nicole Lewis via The Marshall Project on March 1, 2018

The Whitewashing of King's Assassination

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on March 1, 2018

Remember the Orangeburg Massacre

The February 1968 killing of three student protesters in Orangeburg, SC marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.
by Robert Greene II via Dissent on February 7, 2018

In 1968, Three Students Were Killed by Police. Today, Few Remember the Orangeburg Massacre

The shootings occurred two years before the deaths at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on February 7, 2018

‘Some Observations on the NFL and Negro Players’

Newly discovered league memo from 1966 anticipates controversies over the Colin Kaepernick protest.
by Paul Lukas via Andscape on February 1, 2018
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting as they receive medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Black Power Salute

The founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights talks about the iconic protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the winners’ podium in 1968.
via BackStory on January 26, 2018
Science for the People at 2017’s March for Science.

Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is More Relevant Than Ever

A second life for an organization of scientists who questioned how their work was being used.
by Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on January 22, 2018

When the Army Planned for a Fight in U.S. Cities

In 1968, a retired colonel warned that urban insurrections could produce “scenes of destruction approaching those of Stalingrad.”
by Conor Friedersdorf via The Atlantic on January 16, 2018

Memories of Mississippi

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.
by Danny Lyon via New York Review of Books on January 10, 2018
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