Featured series 
Tag: Civil Rights Movement
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Nation & World
How music powers protest
The struggle for racial justice has always had a soundtrack. Charrise Barron explores its evolution from gospel to hip-hop.
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Black voters take the wheel
Voting rights activist LaTosha Brown explains how decades of painstaking activism culminated in Black voters’ decisive and historic role in the 2020 election.
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The conscience of a nation
Few political leaders who successfully transition from activists to lawmakers do so without losing the fire and focus on the causes that brought them to prominence. But Civil Rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who died Friday, was that kind of rare leader.
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A trip to self-discovery in South’s troubled past
On a spring break trip sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association, two College students learn a lesson in common humanity.
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Lewis named Harvard Commencement speaker
U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Civil Rights leader who has represented Georgia’s 5th District for more than 30 years, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 367th Commencement on May 24.
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Beyond ‘I Have a Dream’
An interview with Professors Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry, co-editors of “To Shape a New World, Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr.”
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A transition for Transition
Transition, a magazine published by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, has been published in Africa for the first time in nearly three decades.
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What they overcame
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. took part in a question-and-answer session with Harvard President Drew Faust as part of the William Belden Noble Lectures.
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Remembering, and returning to, Selma
Harvard President Drew Faust delivered Morning Prayers on Friday, offering those gathered in Appleton Chapel for the solemn service a deeply personal reflection on her experience with the Civil Rights Movement 50 years ago.
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Faith as fountainhead
Marshall Ganz ’91, who is credited with devising a grassroots organizing model used by President Obama, says that religious faith can play a greater role in community organizing.
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Nation & World
When things changed for women
During a Radcliffe address, New York Times columnist Gail Collins offered her perspective on why how and why the rights and expectations of American women changed so dramatically between 1960 and today.
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‘Mockingbird’ memories
At 50, a durable “To Kill a Mockingbird” still has power to enthrall.
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Message delivered
The Civil Rights Movement spurred Harvard President Drew Faust to youthful activism and influenced her choice to become a historian of the American South, Faust told the Harvard Business School’s first-year class, urging students to keep their desire to make a difference at the forefront of their minds.
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The invention of childhood innocence
In a new book, Harvard professor Robin Bernstein says that the concept of childhood innocence only dates to the 19th century, and was only applied to whites.
