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Why the Detroit Historical Museum’s new 1967 exhibit needs to be seen – Detroit Metro Times
When it comes to looking back on what went down in Detroit in late July of 1967, the fable of the blind men and the elephant was never more apt.
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James Baldwin FBI Files: How the Author’s Fearlessness Toward the FBI and Others Led to a Decade Long Witch-hunt – Atlanta Black Star
One of the many paradoxes of American society is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has become both destroyer and archivists of 20th-century American radicalism.
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Compromise of 1877: Set Stage for Jim Crow Era – ThoughtCo.
Jim Crow Segregation Ruled South for Nearly a Century
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An ICON MANN Salute To Sidney Poitier – Ebony
Long considered one of the greatest actors to grace the silver screen; American born-Bahamian raised Sidney Poitier’s first foray to acting was at the age of 16 where upon arriving in New York City, working as dishwasher to make ends meet, he responded to a casting call for American Negro Theater in Harlem.
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DC institution Ben’s Chili Bowl repaints famous mural – without Bill Cosby – The Guardian
At a Washington eatery that sits at the heart of the black culture and history it celebrates, the entertainer’s fall from grace poses painful questions.
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Remembering Beaches as Battlegrounds for Civil Rights – The Weekly Challenger
In 1960, black protesters in Biloxi, Mississippi, were attacked while demanding equal access to public beaches. Now the remaining activists are working to preserve the history of the “wade-ins” that opened the space to everyone.
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Remembering Gwen Patton, Activist and Theorist – Black Perspectives
“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political organizing.
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‘The Green Book of South Carolina’ – New York Amsterdam News
The South Carolina African-American Heritage Commission has recently launched an exciting new mobile travel guide, “The Green Book of South Carolina,” to help residents and visitors from all over the world navigate to the more than 300 African-American cultural sites across the state’s 46 counties.
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She changed the way America saw black people – New York Post
When Ming Smith was a teenager in 1960s Columbus, Ohio, her high-school counselor told the Detroit native to abandon her ambitions.
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