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Nonviolence in a Violent Age: Coleman Hughes Live in Atlanta
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What can today’s activists learn from the discipline, sacrifice, and moral clarity of the civil rights movement?

During the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 and the wave of campus protests since, I have been struck by how far modern activism seems to have drifted from the strategies and philosophies of the civil rights era—which, in my opinion, should have remained the model. In the 1950s and ’60s, political change was pursued with discipline, pre…

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