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Jun 28, 2024 · I have found no record, even hearsay, of where he was taken before he emancipated himself in 1858, when he was an adolescent, and “followed the North Star to freedom,” as Shelley Fisher Fishkin puts it in Writing America (2015), choosing to reside, as many formerly-enslaved people did, in Elmira.
Jun 12, 2024 · The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in Chicago in 1942 as the Committee of Racial Equality (the organization underwent a name change in 1944) by African American and white student activists who were staunch believers in pacifism and committed to the abolition of racial discrimination.
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Jun 22, 2024 · Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (born December 27, 1986, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican athlete who is considered one of the world’s best sprinters. She won gold medals in the 100-meter race at both the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2012 London Games, and she captured a silver medal in the event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (delayed until 2021).
Jun 13, 2024 · Twain scholars Shelley Fisher Fishkin and David Lionel Smith discuss African-American influences from Twain’s childhood that are reflected in the work, and suggest that these references, misinterpreted by readers, form the basis for charges that Twain was a racist.
Jun 10, 2024 · foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, George Plimpton ; afterword, Henry B. Wonham. Selected Letters of Bret Harte by Bret Harte; Gary Scharnhorst (Editor) This link opens in a new window
Jun 12, 2024 · The Chicago Area Friends of SNCC (CAFSNCC) was founded in January of 1963 by a small group of Chicago activists interested in supporting and lending financial assistance to SNCC’s work in the South through fundraising, clothing and food drives, and recruitment.
