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Glenda Gilmore

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The Civil Rights Movement Was Radical to Its Core

The Civil Rights Movement was a radical struggle against Jim Crow tyranny whose early foot soldiers were Communists and labor militants.

by Glenda Gilmore, Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 28, 2022

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

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CPUSA members demonstrate in Union Square on May Day, ca. 1930s.

Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare

A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.

by Benjamin Balthaser via The Baffler on November 21, 2024

Collage including the Statue of Liberty, Donald Trump, and the U.S. flag.

The Habit America’s Historians Just Can’t Give Up

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

by Matthew E. Stanley, Paul M. Renfro via Slate on January 9, 2023

Artistic collage of black leaders surrounded by images associated with prohibition.

The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.

by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on February 6, 2021

Man in foreground wearing neo-Nazi patch, man in background holding Confederate flag.

Worshiping the Confederacy is About White Supremacy — Even the Nazis Thought So

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

by Nina Silber via Made By History on August 17, 2017

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