Browsing by Subject "Civil Rights"
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A Maladjusted King: Theological Resistance and Nonconformity in an American Prophet
(2018)In response to Nassir Ghaemi, an academic psychiatrist who presumes a mental illness and genetic abnormality in Martin Luther King, Jr., this project contends that King was a decidedly maladjusted prophet who dramatized ... -
ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF USDA CIVIL RIGHTS SETTLEMENTS: PIGFORD IN ADVOCACY AND CONTEXT
(2019-04-26)In 1999, a class of African American farmers and landowners led by North Carolinian Timothy Pigford sued the United States Department of Agriculture under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, alleging discrimination in loan-making ... -
“Black Power Does Not Come Out of the Sky”: The Emergence of Black Power Politics in the Northern Student Movement, 1961-1968
(2015-03-06)Young, idealistic, and ready to test the waters of American democracy, the Northern Student Movement represented a segment of the New Left that sought a more active involvement in the nation’s affairs while attempting to ... -
Increasing the Disability Vote
(2020-06-25)The disability vote is the overlooked and forgotten vote. To help my organization increase the disability vote, I conducted a series of interviews with people from various disability rights and voting advocacy organizations. ... -
Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
(2016)Few symbols of 1950s-1960s America remain as central to our contemporary conception of Cold War culture as the iconic ranch-style suburban home. While the house took center stage in the Nixon/Khrushchev kitchen debates as ... -
United States Marine Corps and Environmental Justice Policy
(2014-04-23)The United States Marine Corps (USMC) makes decisions every day that impact the environment. Although intended to benefit society, these decisions can have a disproportionate impact on poor and minority populations. On February ...
