Black resistance
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Nobody’s free
until everybody’s free.
—Fannie Lou Hamer
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‘Lynching is color-line murder’
Lynch law in America · Lynch law in all its phases · The red record · Crusade for justice
What, to the slave, is the fourth of July? · What the Black man wants
Why Frederick Douglass matters
Black Reconstruction in America
120th anniversary of color line speech
‘I don’t know you personally, but I know you historically’
Baldwin/Buckley debate; speech: 13:55-37:53
1967 Riverside Church ‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech
1968 ‘Mountaintop’ speech; conclusion
King on the polite racism of white liberals
Fifty years after King’s assassination
Six weeks before Malcom X’s assassination
“If you stick a knife in my back”
Say it plain, say it loud: a century of great African American speeches
African American history timeline, 1500-present
How Black abolitionists changed a nation
African American abolitionist tactics
The historical roots of abolition in the twenty-first century
The day the civil rights movement changed
At the dark end of the street: Black women, rape, and resistance
Montgomery bus boycott · The full story
SNCC: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The day the civil rights movement changed
‘I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger’
2022 is Harriet Tubman’s 200th birth year
Audre Lorde: ‘Learning from the ‘60s’ · ‘The uses of anger: women responding to racism’
Reconstructed: birth of a Black nation
Make good the promises: Reconstruction & its legacy
The Federal Writers’ Project · ‘Inheritance'
Marian Anderson · voice of authenticity and justice · denied a stage, she sang for a nation · recordings & interviews · when Marian Anderson defied the Nazis
5 Black suffragists who fought for the 19th Amendment
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Fred Hampton & his assassination
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
The Central Park Five: ‘We were just baby boys’
Toni Morrison on white supremacy · ‘I’m writing for Black people, I don’t have to apologize’ · The Black Book · The pieces I am · speeches & interviews · literary icon · playing in the dark
bell hooks · Understanding patriarchy
Nikole Hannah-Jones · interview
Citizen · Just us · The white card
Dr. Rev. Pauli Murray · How is Pauli Murray not a household name?
The Great Migration and the power of a single decision
The long-lasting legacy of the Great Migration
How Walter White risked his life to investigate lynchings
Historic Black Churches · origins
Spirituals as poetry & resistance
Zora Neale Hurston: spirituals & neo-spirituals
Ella Sheppard & The Fisk Jubilee Singers
How King’s death gave birth to hip hop
Smithsonian anthology of hip-hop & rap
Homey D. Clown on structural racism
Whoopi Goldberg, 1985 HBO special
Moms Mabley · 1969 performance
Major African American office holders since 1641
On Juneteenth · interview with Annette Gordon-Reed
President Obama eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney
in grief · grief & other loves
A map to the door of no return
For African Americans tired of U.S. hostility, Ghana is still calling
Poem: Ghana Calls · My Country ‘Tis of Thee