Today marks a celebration of the momentous 1963 march on Washington for Civil Rights. We’ve linked to a few Civil Rights movement-related posts here and have embedded Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech below.
- “The Protest Psychosis”: How African American Civil Rights Activism Was Framed as Mental Illness
- African American Travel During Jim Crow Segregation
- “Black Power” in Playboy and “Slack Power” in an Ad for Pants
- Media Coverage of Occupy Wall Street: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
- “I Am a Man”: Black Men’s Claims to Humanity
- How the Kindness of a Black Man Changed the Mind of a KKK Kingpin
Let us remember:
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
