Post Tagged with: "civil rights"
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Black Belt Infrastructure=Black Power
By Danielle Purifoy, Ph.D student at the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Sanford School of Public Policy King Cotton, born from Black Belt soil and forced black labor, built […]
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Rethinking Resistance
By Chandra Christmas-Rouse, Duke senior On the site of the old Empire Theater in Montgomery, Alabama, there lies a museum emblazoned with bronze regal characters that read “Rosa Parks Library […]
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The Two South’s in Downtown Hayneville
By Jacob Rosenberg, rising senior Robertson Scholar This post is among a series from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill students working in Lowndes County, Alabama with the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise […]
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A History of Activism in Lowndes County, AL
By Priyanka Kanal, Duke junior We are finally here. After weeks of anticipation, the first few days of the Environmental Justice Community Research Project have been filled with a whirlwind […]
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Liberation Theology in the South: The Legacy of Theologian and Activist Frederick Herzog
Theologian Joerg Rieger discusses the contemporary relevance of Frederick Herzog’s pioneering work. Herzog was Duke Divinity School faculty member from 1960 to 1995, civil rights activist, and a pioneer of […]
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Mirror of America: Teaching the History of the Civil Rights Movement
Patricia Sullivan is a Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Sullivan specializes in modern United States history, with an emphasis […]
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Citizen King
Citizen King 2004 Full Frame/Emerging Pictures Audience Award. On a steamy afternoon in August 1963, a thirty-four-year-old minister gave a speech that enthralled a crowd of more than two hundred […]
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Leslie Brown, Civil Rights Movements: Chronologies, Contexts and the Classroom
Leslie Brown, a Duke graduate and historian of the civil rights movement, teaches as an Associate Professor of History at Williams College. Prior to 2008, Brown taught a range of […]
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Still Walking for Justice Exhibit Opening
Come celebrate local women activists from the civil rights era and the women who are carrying their legacy forward today. Still Walking for Justice is an exhibit created by the Pauli Murray […]
