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Jan 19, 2025 | 
sunjournal.com | Say Burgin
Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, some white people have been wondering how they can work with Black people to fight racial inequality. As a history professor who studies social movements, I know this is not a new question. In the 1960s, civil rights activists deliberated how to channel white support for racial equality. These conversations took place in cities across the country. In Detroit, white residents responded with particular enthusiasm.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
legalnews.com | Say Burgin
By Say BurginDickinson College(THE CONVERSATION) —Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, some white people have been wondering how they can work with Black people to fight r acial inequality. As a history professor who studies social movements, I know this is not a new question. In the 1960s, civil rights activists deliberated how to channel white support for racial equality. These conversations took place in cities across the country.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
goskagit.com | Say Burgin
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Say Burgin |Dickinson College
By Say Burgin, Assistant Professor of History, Dickinson College
As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the US. Read complete article© The Conversation
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
idahopress.com | Say Burgin
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
bozemandailychronicle.com | Say Burgin
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Say Burgin
Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, some white people have been wondering how they can work with Black people to fight racial inequality. As a history professor who studies social movements, I know this is not a new question. In the 1960s, civil rights activists deliberated how to channel white support for racial equality. These conversations took place in cities across the country. In Detroit, white residents responded with particular enthusiasm.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
caledonianrecord.com | Say Burgin |Dickinson College
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
monthlyreview.org | Say Burgin
is an assistant professor of history at Dickinson College and author of Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit (New York University Press, 2004). Dan Berger, Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey (New York: Basic Books, 2023), 400 pages, $32, hardcover. When it was founded in the winter of 1966, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) Atlanta Project was not necessarily created to do SNCC-style community organizing.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Say Burgin |Jeanne Theoharis
Comment on this storyCommentDespite months of protest and hours of public comments, Atlanta’s City Council voted Tuesday to fund a project dubbed “Cop City,” a police training camp that will be carved out of the Weelaunee Forest. In the face of a diverse community overwhelmingly against the project, council member Michael Julian Bond invoked his father, civil rights legend Julian Bond, in his justification for voting yes.
