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What Texas, white supremacy and coronavirus can teach us about American history

"In the exchange, Americans saw a president who cared, and a government that finally, after its previous leaders had told them to get out of a terrible catastrophe on their own, responded to their needs."...

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The Power of Black Women’s Political Labor Remembered

Bennett College and the Civil Rights Movement

March 9, 2018 • by Jennifer Ash

Greensboro, North Carolina, is best known for the 1960 sit-ins that sparked a massive student movement to desegregate the South. Despite not being fully acknowledged as leaders in that movement, Black women students from Bennett College were vital to the political climate that made the sit-ins possible and sustained the ...