Matthew F. Nichter

Sep 2, 2023 | tampabay.com | Jim Verhulst |Matthew F. Nichter |Juliette Kayyem |Anthony Conwright

We live in a partisan age, and our news habits can reinforce our own perspectives. Consider this an effort to broaden our collective outlook with essays beyond the range of our typical selections. FROM THE LEFTFrom “The Civil Rights Movement Was Filled to the Brim With Leftists,” from an interview with Matthew F. Nichter by Shawn Gude in Jacobin at tinyurl.com/ycyptfjn.

Aug 28, 2023 | znetwork.org | Matthew F. Nichter |Shawn Gude

“The [thing] nobody wants to say . . . or doesn’t know to say,” said Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, an executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the mid-1960s, “is that the people around [Martin Luther King Jr], and Dr. King himself — we were all left-wingers.”Walker knew of what he spoke.

Aug 28, 2023 | znetwork.org | Matthew F. Nichter

“The [thing] nobody wants to say . . . or doesn’t know to say,” said Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, an executive director…

Aug 28, 2023 | jacobin.com | Matthew F. Nichter

Shawn Gude You note early in the article that the intense redbaiting of the 1950s and 60s led many in SCLC to hide their past leftist affiliations or present radicalism. What was the research like for this project? It seems you were doing lots of detective work, finding scraps of evidence and then piecing them together. Matthew F.

Jan 27, 2023 | jacobin.com | Matthew F. Nichter

Frank London Brown and his wife Evelyn were among the thousands of Chicagoans who waited in line at Roberts Temple Church of God to pay their last respects to Emmett Till. Horrified by the sight of the teenager’s swollen, battered face, the Browns identified with the courage of Emmett’s mother, Mamie Bradley.