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'This short documentary explores what we can learn from the Black Panther party in confronting police violence 50 years later.'
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'The Observer dispatched photographer Colin Jones to cover [Birmingham, Alabama in 1963] and capture the activism centred around the 16th Street Baptist church. Many of these images, discovered in the Observer’s picture archive, have never before been published.'
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Photographs of the brutal 1916 killing of a black man in Waco, Texas, became a powerful tool in the hands of the civil rights organization
Kent College History's insight:
'The magazine was the Crisis, the monthly publication of the then new NAACP, edited by WEB Du Bois. The images were part of a campaign that appropriated and subverted racist imagery for progressive purposes. They were a revelation, one that cemented the NAACP’s status as a leading civil rights organization and opened Americans’ eyes to horrific hate crimes across the country.'
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'The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens Thursday on a six-acre site overlooking the Alabama state capital, is dedicated to the victims of American white supremacy. And it demands a reckoning with one of the nation’s least recognized atrocities: the lynching of thousands of black people in a decades-long campaign of racist terror.'
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'An exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York looks back at moments in US history that inspired mass protest.'
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Malcolm X speaking at UC Berkeley on 11 October 1963.
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Sixty years ago, nine teen braved violent protests to attend school after the supreme court outlawed segregation – but racial separation is not over in the US
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'Sixty years ago, nine teen braved violent protests to attend school after the supreme court outlawed segregation – but racial separation is not over in the US by David Smith in Washington.'
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'On a warm August night in 1955, Simeon Wright woke to the sound of unfamiliar voices. Opening his eyes, he found two white men standing at the foot of his bed, holding a flashlight and gun. They were after Wright’s cousin — 14-year-old Emmett Till — who was still asleep beside him but would soon be kidnapped, brutally murdered and dumped into a river.'
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Q: What was the transatlantic slave trade? A: It was the forced migration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to work as slaves in the Americas. This was a brutal form of commerce that treated people as items of property, and was at its height between 1700 and 1850. Q: Roughly how many people were trafficked?
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'TV drama Roots, a historical saga of how Kunta Kinte was transported to America as a slave, shocked and enthralled viewers in equal measure back in 1977. Now the series has been remade, and is airing on BBC Four. Here, Dr Christer Petley, a senior lecturer in history at the University of Southampton, gives you a 60-second introduction to the transatlantic slave trade and how it was eventually abolished …'
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She was an architect of the civil-rights struggle—and the women’s movement. Why haven’t you heard of her?
Kent College History's insight:
'Historical figures aren’t human flotsam, swirling into public awareness at random intervals. Instead, they are almost always borne back to us on the current of our own times. In Murray’s case, it’s not simply that her public struggles on behalf of women, minorities, and the working class suddenly seem more relevant than ever. It’s that her private struggles—documented for the first time in all their fullness by Rosenberg—have recently become our public ones.'
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A historian collecting thousands of runaway slave ads describes them as “the tweets of the master class” in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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The history department at Cornell University has launched “The Freedom on the Move” project to digitise and preserve runaway slave advertisements and make them more accessible to the public.
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Births of a Nation from Boston Review. Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson
Kent College History's insight:
'In 1915 William Joseph Simmons, an ex-preacher who made his income selling memberships in fraternal organizations, led a group of his friends atop Stone Mountain, just outside of Atlanta, burned a giant cross, and launched the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. His inspiration: seeing The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith’s three-hour paean to the original Klan.'
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Four African-American college students made history when they sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in February 1960.
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Photographs of the lunch counter sit-ins of the early 1960s.
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Kent College History's insight:
'The selective enforcement of minor ordinances, as many critics note, performs the same work today that segregation laws did in the past. But it would be inaccurate to call this a new form of Jim Crow. What it is, rather, is a form of Jim Crow that whites in the North have been developing since the early 1900s.'
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Kent College History's insight:
'The white Southern press played a role in the racial terrorism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which saw thousands of African-Americans hanged, burned, drowned or beaten to death by white mobs.'
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Kent College History's insight:
'Racial segregation in public places in the US legally ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But many African Americans were still forced to live and work in second-class conditions. And the simmering anger led to widespread riots, after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968.'
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Kent College History's insight:
'In a highly religious culture, King the preacher and prophet offered a double redemption. To America, he proffered the chance to redeem itself from its original sin of slavery – a vision not of the punishment it probably deserved but of the cleansing it must bring itself to desire. To the descendants of slavery – but also to all people everywhere who have lived with the great insult of inequality – he held out the hope of an even deeper deliverance. He expressed in his words and embodied in his courage the possibility of escaping the tyranny of justified rage. In that, he remains one of history’s great liberators.'
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Kent College History's insight:
'A simple act of defiance more than 60 years ago triggered one of the most celebrated civil rights campaigns in history. John Kirk examines how the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 launched the career of Martin Luther King, Jr and changed the face of modern America …'
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A record of African American representation in Congress from 1870.
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Explore the heroism of Monroe Work, who in 1912 showed us that quietly behind the scenes, you can make a whole nation hear you.
Kent College History's insight:
'In the century after the Civil War, as many as 5000 people of color were murdered by mobs who believed the cause of white supremacy.'
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'On 28 August 1963 Martin Luther King issued his ‘I Have a Dream’ oration to a quarter of a million civil rights supporters in Washington DC. Robert Cook assesses the impact of this iconic moment on the struggle for racial equality ...'
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In the years since Martha Washington briefly graced the one silver dollar-bill in the 19th century, the space on US banknotes has been reserved for white men, usually presidents. However, in April 2016 the country’s treasury announced their intention to depict Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave, on the front of their $20 bill.
Kent College History's insight:
'After her daring escape from slavery in 1849, Harriet Tubman risked her own safety to help guide around 70 friends and family to freedom using a secret network of slaves and abolitionist sympathisers. Later, she became the first woman to lead an armed raid in the American Civil War.'
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David Kresh discusses Langston Hughes and his writings.
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'The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, Ferris State University.'
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'In The Souls of Black Folk, WEB Du Bois combined history, philosophy and music in an attempt to combat racism. To mark the book's centenary, Stuart Hall celebrates a radical American.'
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