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Civil Rights

Civil rights are an essential component of democracy. They're guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics. Examples are the rights to vote, to a fair trial, to government services, and to a public education.  Encyclopedia Britannica


African American eBooks
Native Americans
Civil Rights eBooks

I am the night, color me black.
​I am Hatred.


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In 1965, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. took a knee during a march in Selma, Ala. More than 50 years later, the photo has emerged with renewed meaning amid protests by National Football League (NFL) players.

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Colin Takes A Knee - Colin Rand Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and football quarterback who is a free agent. He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL). As a political activist, he kneeled during the national anthem at the start of NFL games in protest of police brutality and racial inequality in the United States.

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Peabody Essex show leads to ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ discovery of a missing painting. One driving ambition curators at the Peabody Essex Museum had as they began assembling “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle,” was that the landmark traveling exhibition would help uncover a handful of paintings that have fallen from public view in the decades since the original series of 30 works was last exhibited. Curators realized part of that dream Wednesday, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where the exhibition is currently on view, added Panel 16 to the show after a Manhattan couple stepped forward with the painting they had quietly owned for more than half a century.

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Harlem Renaissance Photographer, and Massachusetts native, James Van Der Zee
Biography of James Van Der Zee
Harlem Through James Van Der Zee's Lens
Photographs

Doris Miller

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Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. Defying unjust laws, he read in secret, empowered by the wisdom of contemporaries and classics alike to think as a free man. Douglass risked mockery, abuse, beating and even death to study the likes of Socrates, Cato and Cicero.
 
Long after Douglass’s encounters with these ancient thinkers, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would be similarly galvanized by his reading in the classics as a young seminarian — he mentions Socrates three times in his 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”
 

The Western canon is an extended dialogue among the crème de la crème of our civilization about the most fundamental questions. The Western canon is, more than anything, a conversation among great thinkers over generations that grows richer the more we add our own voices and the excellence of voices from Africa, Asia, Latin America and everywhere else in the world. We should never cancel voices in this conversation, whether that voice is Homer or students at Howard University. For this is no ordinary discussion.

 
Cornel West on Howard University’s removal of the Classics DepartmentCornel West is a professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University

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So You Want to Learn About Juneteenth? On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, were told they were free. Now, 155 years later, people in cities and towns across the U.S. continue to mark the occasion with celebrations.

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How the US stole thousands of Native American children - The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man.”

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One of the best athletes of all time - Indian American Jim Thorpe -Available at the Learning Commons 92 SHE

Indian, or Native American? What's in a name..


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Who Were the Freedom Fighters?

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The inflammatory petition called for a general meeting of South Omaha's citizenry to discuss ridding the community of the "filthy Greeks."

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How Italians Became "White"

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The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army The unit was set up to determine the value black women brought to the military. They ultimately ran the fastest mail service in the European Theater during World War II.

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In the nation’s capital, a network of Black women banded together to campaign for women’s rights and civil rights. Their ranks included Terrell, the poet Angelina Weld Grimké, the author Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs, a leader of the National Baptist Convention, seen at left with an unidentified woman circa 1900. Library of Congress

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Ebsco and other databases available through the Saugus Public Library

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Databases

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Abraham Galloway was one of the most important Civil War leaders, but he was erased from history for over 100 years by the Daughters of the Confederacy. "Union generals later said this about Galloway and other African American spies: They said it is as if they were born to be spies," Cecelski said. "They had developed that -- just living through slavery gave them the most basic skills they needed. The ability to put up a false face. You know, to take on-to blend into surroundings, to conceal themselves."

Middle School Resources

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Take the Confederate Names Off Our Army Bases It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military installations.


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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's Boston University Papers, Archive, & Museum

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Prophet of Freedom

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Behind the “Leonine Gaze” of Frederick DouglassHistorian David Blight on his new biography of Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass, Scarred and tormented seeing men made slaves, set the course of his life to show how a slave became a man. In the cadences of the Bible and Shakespeare, A radical abolitionist with the gaze of a lion, Douglass bestrides the peaks and dark valleys of American history like a colossus, and a modern. More photographed than Lincoln; more traveled than any orator save possibly Mark Twain. He was face-to-face with the whole cast of the 19th
 Century — the only black man at the birthing of the women’s movement in Seneca Falls in 1848. He pushed back with Lincoln in the White House, and with the rebel John Brown before Harpers Ferry. He moved Emerson to say: “Here is the Anti-Slave.”  ​


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Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these films present the opportunity to pose thought-provoking questions for students, and introduce new ideas, perspectives, and primary sources. Lesson Plan (46), Video (322), Media Gallery (92), Interactive (1), Image (26), Document (15) for Grades 4-13+


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The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven George Bridgetower, the original dedicatee of the “Kreutzer” Sonata, was a charismatic prodigy but faded into history.

George Bridgetower's Biography


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Wilson Art Index and RILM are among the resources in this collection. Username: saugus, Password: patriot

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The Burning of Black Wall Street, Revisited Nearly a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the search for the dead continues.

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A National leader of the Abolitionist Movement in Massachusetts and New York
  • Images of Douglass and people in his circle of correspondence
  • A list of Douglass' correspondents
  • A list and images of all the letters in the collection arranged by date and by correspondent
  • Essays by undergraduate Douglass Interns with transcriptions and images of the letters they used
  • Lesson plans and document-based-questions for elementary and high school teachers
  • Selected writings of Douglass and others
  • Links to other Douglass-related websites

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Frederick Douglas Collection St John Fisher College, Rochester, NY.

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 White supremacy has a history in Rochester, NY  
 (Home of Frederick Douglass) There are no Confederate monuments in Monroe County, and no white supremacist rallies are scheduled. But the  Rochester  New York area, proud as it is of its role in the anti-slavery movement, does have a history of racist groups  and gatherings.
 It dates at least to 1872, when the local hero of that anti-slavery movement, Frederick Douglass, had his South  Avenue house burned down while he was out of town. Read the whole story click here.


Steve Inskeep talks with Andrew Delbanco about slavery and reparations. Delbanco is the author of, The War Before the War. Delbanco writes about Americans' complicity with Slavery in his latest book.

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America’s cruelest, richest slave traders: Why does no one know their names?

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Art & Music - People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974

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Genetic impact of African slave trade revealed in DNA study

The Unknown History of Atlantic Vs Islamic Slave Trade


How did we get from "The Civil War" to "The War of Northern Aggression?" The North won the war (whatever that means) but the South clearly won the propaganda war afterwards.. 

These are the results of the "Daughters of the Confederacy's" Education program. How is it that the President’s Chief of Staff John Kelly, a well educated man and former General, commented that the Civil War would not have happened if there had been "compromise." He further said that General Lee "was an honorable man" when clearly the General forsook his oath to defend the United States, and the Constitution, to traitorously fight "for his state." I implore you, how did the “Civil War” metamorphosize into “War of Northern Aggression?”


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‘No Slavery in Australia’? These Pacific Islanders Tell a Different Story

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From MLK to John Lewis, Ebenezer Baptist Church has been a haven for civil rights The church was a home base to Martin Luther King Jr., and has since hosted several important events in the movement for racial justice.

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Books Found In the Learning Commons


Imperial Islam - Enslaved Africans, Asians, and Europeans for over a thousand years..


Arab Slave Trade was much larger than the Atlantic Slave Trade. It began in 639 AD and is still active in Mauritania and UAE today. Even the word slave comes from Slav, from all the white Slavic slaves


How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class

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Japanese Americans

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America’s Forgotten Internment. The United States confined 2,200 Latin Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. They’re still pushing for redress.


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Japanese-American Internment During World War II

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Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at [401 - 403 Eighth] and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

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A Flag for All in Mississippi What if the state could create a new heritage?
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It was the bust of Nefertiti, Toby Wilkinson writes, that “came to represent for Egyptian nationalists the exploitation and appropriation of their history by foreigners — a perennial insult that had gone on for more than a century.”

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For nearly 400 years, Harvard's most famous motto has been a single word, Veritas, or truth. In the spirit of that slogan, university officials said, Harvard on Tuesday published the first full accounting of the institution's historical ties to slavery.

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After three days on a Greyhound bus, Lela Mae Williams was just an hour from her destination – Hyannis, Massachusetts – when she asked the bus driver to pull over. She needed to change into her finest clothes. She had been promised the Kennedys would be waiting for her.

America is Having an Unprecedented Debate About Reparations. What Comes Next?

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Congress’s reparations hearing was historic. It also revealed long-standing tensions. Recent months have touched off a renewed debate about what exactly is owed to the descendants of enslaved men and women after centuries of bondage and legalized discrimination. On Wednesday morning, that debate entered the halls of Congress as a small panel of academics, activists, and journalists, many of them the descendants of enslaved men and women, testified during a hearing on reparations. To read the full story click here...

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The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database

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A historical reckoning for the global slave trade. A crowd toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the port city of Bristol. They then dumped it in the same harbor from which his ships once sailed to pick up cargoes of slaves in Africa.

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'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves.' Amid the global debate about race relations, colonialism and slavery, some of the Europeans and Americans who made their fortunes in trading human beings have seen their legacies reassessed, their statues toppled and their names removed from public buildings. Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes that one of her ancestors sold slaves, but argues that he should not be judged by today's standards or values.

Migrations

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade 1450-1867

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Runaway Journeys

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The Domestic Slave Trade (1760s-1865)

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Colonization and Emigration (1783-1910s)

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Haitian Immigration : Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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The Western Migration (1840s-1970)

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The Northern Migration (1840s-1890)

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The Great Migration (1916-1930)

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The Second Great Migration (1940-1970)

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Caribbean Migration (1900-present)

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Return Migration to the South (1970-present)

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Haitian Immigration (1970-present)

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African Immigration

This Day in Jazz History


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James Van Der Zee - Artist of the Harlem Renaissance 92 ZEE

A Postcard View of African-American Life

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Idealized country life, in a card mailed in 1907, as Americans flocked to cities.
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A river baptism in the South, depicted in a postcard that was mailed in 1912.

Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History'

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By the time George Washington died, more than 300 enslaved people lived and toiled on his Mount Vernon farm. Painting by Junius Brutus Stearns, 19th Century.
"In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention."
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This new report, titled Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, is meant to be that intervention: a resource for teachers who are eager to help their students better understand slavery — not as some "peculiar institution" but as the blood-soaked bedrock on which the United States was built. To read more click here...




If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King. - Ramsey Clark





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