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BOOKS / Progressive Giants : Celebrating Paul Robeson and Anne Braden
Two books about two progressive giants:Celebrating Paul Robeson and Anne Braden By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2010 The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Communist Party, Harry Targ, Progressives, Racism, Social Justice, The Left
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Howard Zinn : Why We Must Not Be Discouraged
Howard Zinn, 1922-2010.On commitment,And believing in Saints By Thomas Cleaver / The Rag Blog / February 1, 2010 See ‘Against discouragement: Howard Zinn at Spelman’ by Howard Zinn, Below. I met many memorable individuals who stopped by the Oleo Strut … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, Historians, Howard Zinn, Justice, Sixties, Social Change, Spelman College, Thomas Cleaver
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Dick J. Reavis : SDS and the Great Divide
Image from Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History.Today’s Red Book and the demise of SDS Nobody present had repudiated Leftism, but everyone seemed to have reached a consensus that the heedlessness of youth had been our common flaw. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Military Draft, Peace Movement, Progressive Labor Party, SDS, Sixties, SNCC, SSOC, The Left, The Rag Blog, Vietnam
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Dick Flacks : Pete Seeger’s Project
Celebrating Pete Seeger:Our political troubador More than any other individual, he had conceived and fostered a tradition of protest song that drew from a number of cultural roots, had significant political consequence, and reshaped the forms and content of popular … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Blacklist, Civil Rights Movement, Communist Party, Folk Music, McCarthyism, Music, Pete Seeger, Social Movements, The Left
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U.S. Schools : Segregation Worse Today Than in the 1950’s
“The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell. Photo courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts.U.S. schools are more segregated today than in the 1950s In California and Texas segregation is spreading into large sections of suburbia as well. … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Public Schools, Segregation
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Culture Wars and Witch Hunts : Anne Braden, Van Jones and Yosi Sargent
Rosa Parks Interviewed by Anne Braden. Photo from Wisconsin Historical Images.The many fronts of the culture wars The Van Jones resignation has particular meaning for people like me with life experience in the coalfields, where the exploitation of land and … Continue reading
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Si Kahn : 44 years of music and social justice
Activist, musician, and executive director of Grassroots Leadership: four decades in the struggle. By Bob Libal | The Rag Blog | July 28, 2009 I read in the paper, I watched on the show They said that it happened a … Continue reading
A Landmark Worth Saving: The School That Ended Segregated Schools
TURNED AWAY Linda Brown was rejected when her father tried to enroll her at Sumner. Photo: Bob Pearman/Kansas City Star.In Purchase of School, Hopes of Saving a Neglected MonumentBy Susan Saulny / July 19, 2009 TOPEKA, Kan. — The classrooms … Continue reading
NAACP Turns 100; Convention Met by Anti-War Protest
Benjamin Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP with long-time civil rights activist Hazel Dukes. Photo by Thomas Good / NLN / The Rag BlogDemonstrators at NAACP confab protest presence of army recruiters As the NAACP kicked off its convention … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Civil Rights Movement, Military Recruiting, NAACP, Peace Movement, Social Protest
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Movement Lawyer Dead in Plane Crash
Attorney Susan Jordan, shown here in her Oakland office in 1999, was killed Friday in a plane crash in southern Utah. Photo: John Burgess/The Press Democrat. Susan Jordan defended the Rag‘s own Marilyn Buck. Susan Jordan, Criminal Justice Defense Lawyer … Continue reading
