I was at the Newport Folk Festival when I heard that Bob Moses had died. As I will discuss in this weekend's Music Notes post, this was a festival heavily dedicated to Black artists. No one mentioned Moses, but somehow it seemed like a fitting...
civil rights
We lost a true giant of justice yesterday. Gloria Richardson was not that well known anymore. But her role in the civil rights movement was transformative. In the early 1960s,.
A week before he died in 1973, Lyndon Johnson sat down for a long interview about his civil rights record. It was the last interview he ever gave. It's worth.
I was reading the obituary today for Jack Geiger, the socially minded doctor who put his expertise to use in order to solve poverty. It's really fascinating. In 1970, a documentary called Out in the Rural was made highlighting his rural health clinic in Bolivar...
Gloria Richardson is one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. But she is far too forgotten about today. Her work in the movement in Maryland was one.
When I was reading Andrew Sandoval-Strausz's book Barrio America in preparation for the podcast with him, I noticed he mentioned a 1961 film titled Dallas at the Crossroads. Narrated by.
This is the grave of Jonathan Daniels. Born in 1939 in Keene, New Hampshire, Daniels was a young man moved by duty. He grew up Congregationalist but while he went to college at Virginia Military Institute, he had a change of heart, became an Episcopalian,...
Bill Clinton decided to use John Lewis' funeral to take a shot at Stokely Carmichael. The last thing we need is whites to use such opportunities to tell histories of.
One of the worst parts of the grotesque and false right-wing attacks on Shirley Sherrod back in 2010 is that she had been an activist for Black land ownership for.
On September 29, 1962, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced Operation Breadbasket, a boycott campaign against companies that refused to hire African-Americans. This was part of the larger civil rights campaigns around economic and workplace justice, which are often trivialized or forgotten completely by people...
What a racial paradise. The cars came one by one, down a gravel road and through a cotton field, to the edge of the Tallahatchie River and the spot where,.
This is the grave of Robert and Mabel Williams. Born in 1925 in Monroe, North Carolina, Robert Williams grew up as part of the black working class. His father was.