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A People’s History of the Black Working Class

Historian Blair L. M. Kelley joined Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian to discuss her book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Dr. Martin Luther King on Reconstruction

Dr. Martin Luther King describes the critical importance of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction to "restore to light the most luminous achievements" of the Reconstruction era.

People’s Historians Online: Rethinking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On International Workers’ Day (May 1), close to 300 educators, parents, and students joined the sessions with Jeanne Theoharis and Jesse Hagopian on the radical history of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Coretta Scott King (R) with Women Strike for Peace founder Dagmar Wilson, 1963 | Zinn Education Project

W. E. B. Du Bois to Coretta Scott King: The Untold History of the Movement to Ban the Bomb

By Vincent Intondi

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. announced his strong opposition to the war in Vietnam, the media attacked him for straying outside of his civil rights mandate. In so many words, powerful interests told him: “Mind your own business.” In fact, African American leaders have long been concerned with broad issues of peace and justice — and have especially opposed nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, this activism is left out of mainstream corporate-produced history textbooks.

There’s Infinitely More to Martin Luther King Jr. Than ‘I Have a Dream’

Article. By Craig Gordon.
Back in 2001, I was trying to get my eleventh grade U.S. history class to focus on a passage from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Unfortunately, I was not surprised when a student protested, "We already know about him. We're tired of hearing about Martin Luther King."

Parade in San Francisco for the first national Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1986.

Jan. 20, 1986: First National Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

The United States celebrated its first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, three years after the holiday was signed into law and eighteen years after the fight for a King holiday began.