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Before The Corridor Of Shame: The African American Fight For Equal Education After Jim Crow, Luci Vaden
Before The Corridor Of Shame: The African American Fight For Equal Education After Jim Crow, Luci Vaden
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"Before the Corridor of Shame: The African American Fight for Equal Education After Jim Crow" analyzes how African American public school students in South Carolina used direct action protest to demand the implementation of quality, desegregated public education in the 1970s. Students built off of the legacy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which empowered the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to withhold federal funds from school districts that practiced overt segregation and became the mechanism by which the federal government could force states to desegregate. As a result, most South Carolina schools desegregated by 1970 and …
Sex Radical: Victoria Woodhull And The Marriage Contract, 1870-1876, Peter Dottling Rich
Sex Radical: Victoria Woodhull And The Marriage Contract, 1870-1876, Peter Dottling Rich
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From 1870 to1876 radical American feminist Victoria Claflin Woodhull had a dramatic public impact. At that time Woodhull was simultaneously the public face of three major social movements (woman suffrage, free love and Spiritualism), the owner of a brokerage firm, and the publisher of a radical weekly newsletter. Yet Woodhull is now largely absent from the popular narrative of nineteenth-century American history. Her radical views, charismatic personality, and unorthodox personal life resulted in demonization by a scandal-hungry popular press and persecution by the state-sanctioned, morals crusader, Anthony Comstock. Although In the past two decades a number of feminist historians and …