civil rights

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/7/2020
  

  The Nation’s First Civil-Rights Law Needs to Be Fixed

  Congress can amend the nation's first civil rights law to make explicit that it protects against both intentional discrimination and policies that perpetuate racial inequality. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/4/2020
  

  Don’t Believe the Lie That Voting Is All You Can Do

  by Daniel Hunter

  Stop minimizing the work of movements.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/5/2020
  

  Portraits that Honor the Men Who Participated in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

  Carl Juste’s double portrait of father and son presents an extraordinarily intimate experience on the usually busy public plaza surrounding the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8/6/2020
  

  The Voting Rights Act Was Signed 55 Years Ago. Black Women Led the Movement Behind It.

  Women such as Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash and Marie Foster are not acknowledged for their efforts during the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/1/2020
  

  Stokely Carmichael Didn’t Deserve Bill Clinton’s Swipe During John Lewis’s Funeral

  by Hasan Kwame Jeffries

  This mischaracterization of Carmichael serves a purpose. It allows people to dismiss his critique of America.

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• SOURCE: Lawyers, Guns & Money
  8/3/2020
  

  We Don’t Need Bill Clinton’s History Of Civil Rights

  by Erik Loomis

  Bill Clinton decided to use John Lewis’ funeral to take a shot at Stokely Carmichael. The last thing we need is whites to use such opportunities to tell histories of the civil rights movements that are used to make them feel comfortable.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/28/2020
  

  How the Greensboro Four Sit-In Sparked a Movement

  Scholars including Jeanne Theoharis and Will Guzmán describe the roots and impact of the 1960 Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/29/2020
  

  Dropping ‘Pettus’ Is a Bridge Too Far

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Advocates of renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for John Lewis are disregarding Lewis's published thoughts on the subject. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/28/2020
  

  History Meets Mythology: Debate Stirs over Push to Rename T.C. Williams High School, of ‘Remember the Titans’ Fame

  Thomas Chambliss Williams served as superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools from the 1930s to the 1960s. He resisted integration, argued black and white students learn differently and fired a black cafeteria worker when she joined a NAACP lawsuit compelling Alexandria to end segregation.

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• SOURCE: Amsterdam News
  7/23/2020
  

  Princeton Prof Eddie Glaude Talks New Book ‘Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America’

  Glaude’s book reminds us that the duty to turn things around is ours. Baldwin is our guide.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2020
  

  When I was 12, John Lewis Talked my Mom into Letting Me March with Him

  Because of Lewis, I got my first chance to protest my city’s and region’s racist policies and practices — from where we could eat, work, live, go to school, swim, party, play sports and even use the taxpayer-funded public restrooms.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/26/2020
  

  Attacked at a 1964 Civil Rights Protest, Mimi Jones, Who Died at 73, was the Subject of an Iconic Photo

  “All of a sudden, the water in front of my face started to bubble up like a volcanic eruption,” she told WGBH. “I could barely breathe. It was entering my nose and my eyes.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/26/2020
  

  John Lewis Makes Final Journey Across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma (Video)

  Hundreds had gathered along the route from the church to the bridge, some traveling hours to see Lewis’s final journey, others lining up in the early morning.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/2020
  

  At Memorial Service, John Lewis’s Family Urges Americans To Keep His Legacy Alive

  Speakers at a public memorial service in Troy, Ala., Lewis’s birthplace, urged Americans to carry on his legacy.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Can Martin Luther King’s Spiritual Vision Kindle a New Progressivism?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Advocates for a broader social democratic political agenda should consider the spiritual roots of Martin Luther King's activism, which have historically engaged a broad range of political views to reform movements. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/23/2020
  

  Patience Is a Dirty Word

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  On August 28, 1963, many Americans were not ready to hear John Lewis speak about completing the revolution of 1776. Are Americans ready for the message the 23-year-old Lewis offered now?

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7/22/2020
  

  C.T. Vivian was a Giant Figure in the Civil Rights Movement: 5 Things You May Not Have Known about Him

  Vivian was a monumental figure in the Civil Rights Movement, with a stretch of advocating for racial equality for more than six decades from his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Illinois.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  7/20/2020
  

  Why John Lewis Matters—Now More Than Ever

  The book and the documentary Good Trouble serve as twin cultural epitaphs for a man widely adored and perpetually being reimagined, discovered, and studied.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  7/19/2020
  

  Police Would Treat John Lewis Today the Same Way They Treated Him in 1965

  "When police beat someone for challenging a morally diseased system, the phrase “beaten for challenging a morally diseased system” rarely gets written in the incident report."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/21/2020
  

  John Lewis’ Fight for Equality Was Never Limited to Just the United States

  by Keisha N. Blain

  By linking national concerns to global ones, John Lewis compelled others to see that the problems of racism and white supremacy were not contained within U.S. borders.