Socialism Comes to Philadelphia
On Sunday afternoon, March 9, 1930, the city of Philadelphia witnessed what the Public Ledger called “one of the most amazing demonstrations of.
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Protest, Politics and Policing: What Bayard Rustin Could Tell the Ferguson-Garner Movement
“I can’t breathe” actions in street crossings, sports fields and other civic spaces have blown new life into civil rights public history. Demonstrators.
- by Roberta Gold
- January 19, 2015
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On Ferguson, Missouri: History, Protest, and “Respectability”
It is difficult to write about the situation in the black working-class community of Ferguson, Missouri, which began last week with the police.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 17, 2014