black awakening in obama's america
Sam Frizell, “Obama: Ferguson Exposed ‘Gulf of Mistrust’ Between Cops and Communities,” TIME, September 28, 2014, http://time.com/3441544/obama-ferguson-g.... . ..…
w. e. b. du bois, black agency and the slaves’ civil war
The organization of an elaborate system for transporting laborers back and forth across the region—mainly from the interior of the Gulf and seaboard states toward the vulnerable coast—presented serious problems for slaveholders and military officials alike. ... There, he was convinced, the..…
leonard peltier and the indian struggle for freedom
In November 1969, seventy-eight people, most of them members of the group Indians of All Tribes (IAT), occupied Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. ... AIM itself drew inspiration, ideas, and tactics from the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense—this was very conscious in the minds of its..…
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