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Joshua Clark Davis
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Trip to Chapel Hill last week reminded me of the power of the "long civil rights movement" framework. First, we had an outstanding event at the Stone Center on Black bookstores w/ Paul Coates, Michael Simanga, Shirikiana Gerima, Clarence Lusance, Lew Brandon, and Ed Vaughn.
Pretty incredible how the booksellers on our panel represented a movement thread running from CORE + the Greensboro sit-ins, the Black Panthers, the Congress of Afrikan Peoples, and the Sixth Pan African Congress in Tanzania. Shout out to @UNCStoneCenter for organizing this!
Another "long civil rights movement" thought: walked by this memorial of the first Freedom Rides organized by CORE, not in the 1960s, but in 1947! Sixteen protestors including Bayard Rustin were arrested in Chapel Hill and sent on a chain gang for 22 days this.
I was really happy to see this impressive multi-panel memorial to the Chapel Hill movement for the 1st time. When I started grad school there was almost no public commemoration of the movement in CH or the white backlash it provoked in this town best known for a liberalism.
Last thought: was really glad to grab coffee w/ Jacquelyn Hall. The more I teach civil rights, the more I realize how much students learn from the LCRM concept. Jacquelyn's new book, Sisters and Rebels on the Lumpkin sisters of GA, is coming out in May. books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.a…
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$40 million and counting.

That's how much American taxpayers have paid in the last decade for Confederate monuments and other shrines to a racist ideology.

This is all "history" glorified supposedly for the public's good.

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"“Monuments to the ‘lost cause’ will prove monuments of folly...in the memories of a wicked rebellion which they must necessarily perpetuate...It is a needless record of stupidity and wrong.”

Frederick Douglass, 1870
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President George Bush wanted to show America what crack cocaine looked like at his first Oval Office address on Sept 5, 1989. He wanted to show you could even buy crack in front of the White House. That’s how bad the crisis had gotten. That’s how Bush announced his War on Drugs.
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Easy solution: invite someone to sell crack outside the White House!
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