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by Frank Dobson, Vanderbilt University
On Dec....
by Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs
Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them.
Known around the...
by Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
In May 1963, as civil rights demonstrations rocked the city of Birmingham, Alabama, Harry Belafonte was at a cocktail...
by Kristin Ann Hass, University of Michigan
As an acclaimed photographer and conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas has grown accustomed to criticisms of his unconventional...
Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first...
by Jerald Podair, Lawrence University
As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my...
by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
For the past 12 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director of the Morehouse College Martin...
