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Racism & Racial Ideas

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Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.
Inequality After Apartheid
Occupy Wall Street and the NAACP protesting in New York in 2011.
A History of Stolen Citizenship
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Crime scene with police tape
White Supremacist Violence – An Origins Top ten
More than just peace and love, 1968 was a global clash against political and business establishments.
Time It Was: 1968 Around the World
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.
"Lone Wolves" No More
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum
Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL
Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory
Alt-right protestors in Berkley, CA in 2017.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville
Insulin shock therapy being administered in the 1950s to a psychiatric patient.
America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911
150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois
KKK Rally
From Dixie to the Third Reich
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling
The Long View of Sports Protests
A 2017 protest over a monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Ten Protests in Sports History
1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History
Richard and Mildred Loving
Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin
At the Movies: LA 92: The Right to be Angry
George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.
At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.
Star Trek
Demonstrators at the civil rights march on Washington, D.C. demand an end to police violence, August 28, 1963
Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47
Baseball Without Borders

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