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Born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954, and raised in the North Philadelphia housing projects, Mumia Abu-Jamal ...
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African American resistance, Jim Crow era
Black militant resistance played a significant role throughout the Jim Crow era. Prior to the 1950s and ...
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African American resistance, Reconstruction era
Faced with an upsurge of anti-black violence after the end of slavery, blacks in the American South frequently ...
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Anti-Racist Action (ARA) has been a militant form of anti-fascist organizing in North America for two ...
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Baker, Ella Josephine (1903–1986)
Ella Josephine Baker was a civil rights activist best known for her work with the National Association ...
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Amiri Baraka, also known as Imanu Amiri Baraka, a playwright, writer, poet, and one of the leaders of ...
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In 1750 a minor revolution took place among the Philadelphia Quakers that eventually eliminated slavery ...
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Born out of diverse elements of protest in the late 1960s, including the civil rights movement , a parallel ...
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H. Rap Brown, born Hubert Gerold Brown (October 4, 1943) and now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, is ...
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Carmichael, Stokely/Kwame Turé (1941–1998)
Stokely Carmichael (later, Kwame Turé) was born into a working-class family on June 29, 1941 in Port ...
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