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A biographer says Jimmy Carter was an unusual kind of politician
Former US President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Monday aged 90, was a Southern Baptist and the time for racism and discrimination in America, historian Kai Bird said in his biography ‘The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter’. “When he was…smartest boy in the room,” Bird added. Bird further said that Carter supported…
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The 1619 Project shows democracy is the only hope for the future
Black people are often relegated to the margins as slaves or peaceful demonstrators during the civil rights movement’s heroic period, according to a documentary series called ‘Democracy’. In the first installment of the series, titled ‘Democracy’, Hannah-Jones argues that Black people have been the perfectors of our democracy. She added, “It is Black people who…
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Civil Rights Pioneer in Rural Georgia, Charles Sherrod died at the age of 85
Author Mark Whitaker has written a book titled ‘Saying It Loud: 1966 – The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement’. He said that during the year 1966, “the civil rights movement had been shouting ‘Freedom now!'” and on June 16, 1966, protests started in the US over the death of African- American teenager…