Drum and Spear was founded by SNCC organizers in Washington, D.C. The bookstore quickly became a central hub of knowledge to “disseminate information by and about Black people in the African Diaspora.”
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Book — Non-fiction. By Victoria Law. 2021. 240 pages
An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.
Teaching Activity by Victoria Law
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Following months of protests to end segregation, Black residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama were brutally attacked by police and the Klan inside the First African Baptist Church.
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On June 8, 1966, protesters with the Action Coordinating Committee to End Segregation in the Suburbs (ACCESS) took to the Washington, D.C. Beltway, starting at Georgia Avenue and marching for 66 miles over four days to protest housing segregation in the D.C. suburbs. The marchers were met with angry motorists and counter-protesters who supported the status quo.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Joshua Clark Davis. 2025. 424 pages.
An examination of the civil rights struggle through its work against police violence — and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.
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Thousands of people took to the streets outside of the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in San Francisco to protest the hotel’s unfair hiring practices, which permitted Black people and people of color only the most menial of jobs.
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The Fort Hood Three issued a public statement about their refusal to be sent to Vietnam.
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In solidarity with the Palestinian people, Detroit auto workers led a one-day strike protesting the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) support of Israel.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Emily L. Thuma. 2024. 256 pages.
A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today’s abolition feminist struggles.
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Ten young Black activists and community members — known as the Wilmington Ten — were wrongfully convicted in North Carolina for standing up for racial justice and equal education.
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The Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital’s major administrative building in response to deplorable treatment of people of color.
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The Freedom Schools Convention was held in Meridian, Mississippi
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Jonathan Myrick Daniels was shot dead in broad daylight in Lowndes County after being released from jail for picketing stores that denied entry to African Americans.
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Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, and the other members of the MFDP at the Democratic National Convention, questioned the nation about the lack of “one person, one vote” in the United States.
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People’s Tribunal on killing of three young men at Algiers Motel in Detroit.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Fred Branfman. 2013 (original edition, 1972). 196 pages.
Essays, drawings, and poems by Laotian villagers who survived almost 10 years of widespread, persistent, and devastating bombing during the Vietnam War in a covert operation in Laos.
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The bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
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A U.S. Supreme Court decision bans poll taxes for state and local elections.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Debra J. Stone. 2025. 104 pages.
A young girl reckons with the demolition of a Black Saint Paul neighborhood to make way for the Interstate in the early 1960s.
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With a long list of grievances, more than 1,200 students at John Hay High School in Cleveland, Ohio, walked out of school and held an unauthorized assembly.
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Treaties were signed to turn over control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. to Panama.
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Fourteen people removed and burned 10,000 draft cards from the Milwaukee draft board.
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Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.
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