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Radical Black vs. Radical Italian Clashes
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Radical Black vs. Radical Italian Clashes

In 1967, a Riot broke out in Newark NJ after reports circulated about police beating a Black man. Death(s) 26 were killed, 727 injured, and 1,465 arrested during the "Long, Hot Summer." Newark was one of the first black majority cities in the United States. Its industrial base
May 23, 2018 1 min read
March on Selma King and Heschel
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March on Selma King and Heschel

Martin Luther King, Jr. listening to a transistor radio in the front line of the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to campaign for proper registration of black voters, March 23, 1965. Ralph Abernathy (second from left), Ralph Bunche (third from right) and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (far right)
May 21, 2018
Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer Bruce Watson’s Freedom Summer was published in 2010, but it looks back at the “Mississippi Summer” of 1964 which by all accounts was one of the most important events in the social upheavals in the Long 1960s. Mississippi was one of the most segregated and socially regressive
Apr 23, 2018 2 min read
Angela Davis
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Angela Davis

Angela Davis was a radical leader of the Communist Party USA in the 1960s. She was also connected with the Black Panther Party. Here's a picture of her where she went to East Germany in 1972. Here's a Free Angela Davis pin from the Brooklyn College Archives
Apr 22, 2018 1 min read
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