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McCarthy: Enemy of the Negro People (excerpt, p. 14)

This journal article excerpt describes how the House Un-American Activities Committee tried to undermine the Civil Rights Movement by targeting some activists as communistic sympathizers. Eslanda Goode Robeson used her testimony as a platform to speak out against American hypocrisy and injustice.
by
Charles Allen Jr.
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Topic
Civil Rights Movement
Social Justice Domain
Identity Justice
July 6, 2022
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Experiment in Fairness

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Bayard Rustin was an African American leader who worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) in the 1940s and 1950s for equal rights for all Americans using nonviolence. In this story, he writes about the struggle for an African American man to order a simple hamburger at a restaurant in the Midwest.
by
Bayard Rustin
Grade Level
6-8
Topic
Civil Rights Movement Class
Subject
Civics
History
Economics
Social Justice Domain
Identity Diversity Justice Action
July 16, 2018
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Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, the nation’s leading institution for educating African-American men. While matriculating at Morehouse, he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and initiated into the Pi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. After graduating summa cum laude from Morehouse with a B.A. in history in 1994, Jeffries enrolled at Duke University, where he earned a M.A. in American history in 1997, and a Ph.D. in American history with a specialization in African American history in 2002. While completing his graduate work