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"The ultimate tragedy—not the brutality of the bad people but the silence of the good people"This 1968 poster borrowed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words.Today, it bridges two critical periods
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Reverend C. T. Vivian embodied the values that made the Black Freedom Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s revolutionary and inspiring: courage, commitment, sacrifice, and strategy. Rev. Vivian first became
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The AIDS epidemic modernized the gay rights movement and propelled gay liberation by decimating and restructuring communities, creating solidarity, and necessitating out-of-the-box confrontations. When Americans began dying of AIDS, the
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On June 19, 1865, the U.S. Army arrived in Texas and issued General Orders, Number 3, proclaiming that all enslaved people in the state were free. The announcement made freedom
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