They came to the University of Oregon in Eugene with high expectations and the drama of their race as the centerpiece.
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Malcolm X Day 2018 | New York Amsterdam News
“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”— Malcolm X.
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This Freed American Slave Founded an African Capital | OZY
Because one of the George Washingtons of Sierra Leone was a former American slave.
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NAACP national convention coming to Detroit in 2019 | Michigan Chronicle
The convention will bring delegates from across the country to downtown Detroit, where the group will determine the future policy and program of the NAACP’s advocacy and civil rights efforts.
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Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 | The Guardian
The Observer dispatched photographer Colin Jones to cover the story and capture the activism centred around the 16th Street Baptist church.
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is founded, May 8, 1926 | Politico
Under Randolph’s direction, the union enrolled 51 percent of railroad porters within a year.
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I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye | The Atlantic
Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.
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The Last Slave | Vulture
In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston sought to publish the story of Cudjo Lewis, the final slave-ship survivor. Instead it languished in a vault. Until now.
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Happy slaves? The peculiar story of three Virginia school textbooks | Richmond Times-Dispatch
If you were a Virginian between fourth and 11th grades from 1957 to the 1970s, you may well have gotten a dose of this official state history. The books were estimated to reach more than a million students.
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A Humble Trailblazer: Meet Mary Alexander, the First African-American Woman to Appear in Coca-Cola Advertising (2013) | Coca Cola
Ask Mary who she is, and she’ll proudly share her many titles: wife, mother, grandmother, former teacher and high school principal.
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