On March 28, 1977, AFSCME Local 1644, a union primarily made of African-American sanitation workers, went on strike in Atlanta, hoping to force mayor Maynard Jackson to grant them a.
Randall Kennedy has an interesting long book review of new biographies of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and Huey Newton. I haven't read any of them, not even Manning Marable's acclaimed.
That no one in the House Republican leadership was going to go to the Selma commemoration until people called them out on it in the Washington Post and other publications.
While I am usually in favor of keeping statues and other public monuments to horrible racists up and then interpreting them, naming major buildings or public works projects is a.
Rich Lowry decided to review Selma. Naturally, his review was "that was then, this is now, and obviously the racist suppression of the black vote in 2015 has absolutely no.
Now that you've had your holiday fun, it's back to work. Peter Dreier has a biographical piece on the great civil rights leader (and underrated great American) Ella Baker. You.
Freedom Summer was 50 years ago this year and its anniversary has been pretty underreported. Anyway, this is an interesting piece from one of the white organizers about the relationship.
With the Civil War sesquicentennial and the World War I centennial beginning, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement's major victories has not received the attention I'd like to.
