civil rights movement

Content about the US civil rights movement.

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Paths to Critical Theory - Adolph L. Reed Jr.

Reed reflects on the political and intellectual trajectory of his youth, as the contradictions of black power, Trotskyism and the New Left pushed…

Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008). Factum I and Factum II, 1957.

Black Particularity Reconsidered - Adolph L. Reed Jr.

A critical retrospective on the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left through to the turn to black…

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Black power: no black magic - Dorice McDoniels

An article by Dorice McDoniels commenting on the rise of the Black Power movement. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker Vol. 64, No. 19,…

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Disabled Radicals

Disabled people have been active parts of every society and liberatory movement. Yet when history is written, disability is often erased or stigmatised. This zine aims to celebrate the…

Cover of "Just Another N-word" by Don Cox, a former Black Panther

Just Another N*****: My Life In The Black Panther Party

The definitive memoir of life in the Black Panther Party -- and its decline due to the flaws of…

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We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement - Akinyele Omowale Umoja

Akinyele Omowale Umoja demonstrates how black armed resistance was critical to the…

No Justice, No Peace - Asad Haider

Asad Haider explores the concepts of peace and justice in the thought of Martin Luther King. This article was first published by Viewpoint…

Direct Action (SWF): Vol 5 #01 (31) Jan 1964

Volume 5, Issue 1 of Direct Action, with articles on Committee of 100 members being imprisoned, a strike by construction workers at St. Paul's…

Bad: The autobiography of James Carr

The life story of a black panther, prison activist and situationist influenced revolutionary.

At canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68

At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race,…

Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.

Parting the waters: Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement 1954-63 - Taylor Branch

First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of…