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Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: Refuse & Resist! was a human rights activist group founded in New York City in 1987. They opposed censorship, war, acts of police brutality, advocated against the death penalty and other acts of violence. They supported political prisoners, undocumented immigrants, the poor, and reproductive rights. Refuse & Resist! worked through nonviolent resistance, including speaking out in schools, communities and in the media; organizing forums and meetings; demonstrating in the streets; creating and performing cultural works; and contributing financially. The organization officially dissolved in 2006 and the website ceased updating in 2008. The website contains news listings, their CounterAttack magazine, and their artists network.
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Subject: Radicals |z United States |x Civil rights., Peace movements |z United States., Prisoners |x Civil rights |z United States., Human rights |z United States.
Creator: Refuse & Resist! (Organization).
Coverage: United States.
Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: Website documenting the Black Lives Matter movement following the police murders of Mike Brown and Eric Garner in 2014. The website includes listings for actions, movement demands, and resources.
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Subject: Black power., Police Brutality., Grand jury -- United States
Creator: Ferguson Action
Coverage: United States.
Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: This site was originally created to list actions across the United States organized in response to the Ferguson, MO grand jury decision in the killing of unarmed African-American teenager Mike Brown in 2014. The website later expanded to list other events pertaining to police brutality, racial injustice, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Subject: Black power., Police brutality., Grand jury -- United States.
Creator: Ferguson National Response Network
Coverage: United States.
Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: This website was an archive dedicated to the trials of the Scottsboro Boys. Nine Black teenagers, Haywood Patterson, Charles Weems, Clarence Norris, Andy Wright, Ozzie Powell, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, Willie Roberson, and Roy Wright were falsely accused of raping two white women on a Southern Railroad freight run on March 25, 1931. The results of the trials opened southern juries to Black people, exacerbated sectional strife, and divided America's political left.
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Subject: Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931., African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama.
Creator: University of Missouri--Kansas City. School of Law
Publisher: University of Missouri--Kansas City. School of Law
Coverage: United States.
Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: The Million Hoodies Movement for Justice is a national non-profit with over 50,000 members working to protect and empower young people of color from racial profiling and gun violence. The organization was founded in response to the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. The organization is named for the hooded sweatshirt Martin wore when he was shot. The organization works through demonstrations and lobbying. The website contains event listings, curated music for the organization and actions, and a blog.
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Subject: Martin, Trayvon, 1995-2012, Discrimination--United States., Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.
Creator: Million Hoodies Movement for Justice
Coverage: United States.
Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: National Action Network is a civil rights organization in the Nation with chapters throughout the entire United States, founded in 1991 by Reverend Al Sharpton. They work to promote a civil rights agenda that includes the fight for one standard of justice and equal opportunities for all people regardless of race, religion, nationality, or gender. Their initiatives include criminal justice, voter protection, anti-violence and gun control, jobs creation, corporate responsibility, education, and decency. The organization works through a ministry as well as non-violent direct action. The website includes information on their campaigns and events, news, video, images, and Al Sharpton's blog.
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Subject: Civil rights |z United States., Corporate accountability., Peace movements |z United States., Voter registration.
Creator: National Action Network.
Coverage: United States.
Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: The Million Hoodies Movement for Justice is a national non-profit with over 50,000 members working to protect and empower young people of color from racial profiling and gun violence. The organization was founded in response to the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. The organization is named for the hooded sweatshirt Martin wore when he was shot. The organization works through demonstrations and lobbying. The website contains event listings, curated music for the organization and actions, and a blog.
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Subject: Martin, Trayvon, 1995-2012, Discrimination--United States., Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.
Creator: Million Hoodies Movement for Justice
Coverage: United States.
Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: Refuse & Resist! was a human rights activist group founded in New York City in 1987. They opposed censorship, war, acts of police brutality, advocated against the death penalty and other acts of violence. They supported political prisoners, undocumented immigrants, the poor, and reproductive rights. Refuse & Resist! worked through nonviolent resistance, including speaking out in schools, communities and in the media; organizing forums and meetings; demonstrating in the streets; creating and performing cultural works; and contributing financially. The organization officially dissolved in 2006 and the website ceased updating in 2008. The website contains news listings, their CounterAttack magazine, and their artists network.
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Subject: Radicals |z United States |x Civil rights., Peace movements |z United States., Prisoners |x Civil rights |z United States., Human rights |z United States.
Creator: Refuse & Resist! (Organization).
Coverage: United States.
Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Description: The Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee is an organization that advocates for justice for Trayvon Martin. Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. Zimmerman was tried on June 24, 2013, and found not guilty the following day. The organization believes that Martin’s death was a race based murder and Zimmerman was not arrested because of white supremacy and classism inherent in the criminal justice system. The website contains information about rallies in response to the not guilty verdict, as well as reports from the rallies’ aftermath.
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Subject: Martin, Trayvon, 1995-2012, Discrimination--United States.
Creator: Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee
Coverage: United States.
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