Pamela Oliver · @pamelaoliver
1372 followers · 1227 posts · Server sciences.social

Reading 1997 news accounts of the , seeing allusions to conflicts about who was included/excluded, but nobody directly saying exactly what the conflicts were or who said what. My eyes are glazing over trying to track down details. As far as I can tell, there is virtually zero academic work on this important event. If it is there, it isn't using the key phrase Million Woman March. Let me know if I'm missing something,

#blackwomen #millionwomanmarch #blackmovement #BlackHistory

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Pamela Oliver · @pamelaoliver
724 followers · 258 posts · Server sciences.social

Reminder from my ongoing research on Black protest from Black newspapers. In the mid-2000s, a lot of the new action was in the Afrosphere, Black blogs. Also ColorOfChange.Org . The first big Internet-organized Black campaign was the Jena 6 protest in 2007. People were calling it the "new Civil Rights Movement." You can really see the infrastructure being built, the lead-up to BLM.

#blackmovement #afrosphere #BlackHistory #blackprotest #AfricanAmerican #BlackTwitter #blackmastodon

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