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The Ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement Went Far Beyond Affirmative Action
We should find inspiration in their goals today.
by
Jerome B. Karabel
via
TIME
on
June 29, 2023
The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919
In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.
by
Jerome B. Karabel
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New York Review of Books
on
September 30, 2019
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