Learn about the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with this historical overview.
Learn about the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with this historical overview.
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A letter in response to police detention and harassment of journalists, delivered to the Ferguson and St. Louis County Police departments and the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Accounts from the crisis that unfolds in Little Rock, Arkansas when black students attend the previously all-white Central High School. Accounts from the crisis that unfolds in Little Rock, Arkansas when black students attend the previously all-white Central High School.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article summarizes events after day two in Ferguson.
A CNN article explores the strengths and weaknesses of, and interplay between, professional news and amateur social media.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article summarizes what was known in the first 24 hours after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo.
Read a transcript of the press conference that took place ten days after Michael Brown’s death and several days after responsibility for security in Ferguson was transferred from local police to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Explore excerpts from the demands of the mostly Latinx students who led a series of school walkouts in Los Angeles in 1968.
Learn about the 1963 Chicago Public School Boycott, when students demanded better schools for black neighborhoods and equal opportunity for all.