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Essay Series: Civil Rights Act at 60 Diversity Essay Series 19 Aug 2024 Fighting for Equality: The Washington Post’s Metro Seven Wendy Melillo Associate Professor, Journalism, American University When the National Association of Black Journalists admitted a group of young black journalists called…
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Essay Series: Civil Rights Act at 60 Essay Series: From School Desegregation to School Integration 4 Jun 2024 Forged and Sustained by Four Days of Television The Civil Rights Act of 1964, sweeping legislation since the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, prohibited discrimination in public places and…