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Recommended Reading

05/23/201403/22/2012 by Connie

More really interesting commentary on the book and movie, The Help. From the Association of Black Women Historians. Recommended readings are included: An Open Statement to the Fans of The Help.

Categories history, media, recommended Tags civil rights, Jim Crow, movies, The Help

Japanese American Civil Rights Hero Dies

01/25/201601/05/2012 by Connie

Gordon Hirabayashi refused to go to a WWII internment camp in 1942. He died on Monday at the age of 93. Read more about his story here.

Gordon Hirabayashi, center, in 1999 at the former prison camp in Arizona where he was held for about a year. The camp was later renamed for him.

Categories history Tags civil rights, internment camps, japan, WWII

Supreme Court

05/23/201410/07/2011 by

NPR story about the book, Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903

The Supreme Court’s Failure To Protect Blacks’ Rights : NPR.

Categories history, politics, recommended Tags civil rights

Race & Hollywood

05/23/201408/12/2011 by Connie

Are you going to see the movie, The Help? Have you read the book? Here is interesting commentary about the movie and how Hollywood typically frames narratives of race relations: On Race and Hollywood – Video Library – The New York Times.

 

Categories history, media, recommended Tags civil rights, Jim Crow, movies, The Help

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