Madeline Anderson's 1960 film Integration Report No. 1 is a solid film reviewing that moment in the civil rights movement. Some of it is stuff you remember and some of it is very much the many actions that were big at the time but are...
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This is the grave of Charles Hamilton Houston. Born in 1895 in Washington, D.C., Houston grew up relatively prosperous, especially for Black America in these years. His father, born a.
The way we teach the civil rights movement--or any movement--has gotten massively oversimplified, with a focus on just a few people. This may be inevitable, but we lose something by.
Inside this cemetery office lies the grave of Ralph Abernathy. I'll explain why I couldn't actually see the grave at the end of the post. Born in 1928 in Linden, Alabama, Abernathy grew up pretty well off. It's worth remembering that in most of the...
The historiography of the Black Panthers at first was very critical of them. This was largely written by middle class people who valorized the mainline civil rights movement and thought.
This is the grave of Benjamin Roberts. Born in Boston in 1815, Roberts grew up in the small Black middle class of that city at that time. His father was.
We lost another of the great figures of the civil rights movement: Joseph McNeil, who jolted the civil rights movement with a surge of youth activism when he and three other freshmen from a historically Black college held a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter...
This is the grave of John Lewis. What to even say about John Lewis? He's such a well known figure and a hero to almost everyone who knows anything about.
This is the grave of James Forten. Born free in Philadelphia in 1766, Forten came from a family of freed people. In fact, it was his grandfather who had become.
This is the grave of David Bustill Bowser. Born in 1820 in Philadelphia, Bowser grew up free. His family had fought for Black rights going back a couple of generations and his father owned a popular restaurant. So he was raised to continue that struggle,...
This is the grave of Caroline LeCount. Born in 1846 in Philadelphia, LeCount grew up in the Black activism of the pre-Civil War community of that city. Her father was.
As we lose our civil rights leaders, we need to note them. Charles Person was not the most famous of them because he made decisions to live a pretty normal.