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Civil rights

History

Students united

Published Nov 7, 2022

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute students and Hopkins undergrads come together to learn about Baltimore's civil rights history

Common read

An activist's history

Published Aug 29, 2018

First-year students read, discuss Jo Ann Gibson Robinson's memoir 'The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It'

Race in America

Beyond 'I Have a Dream'

Published April 27, 2018

Friends of Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on his 'Drum Major Instinct' sermon of 1968

Race in America

A 'radically different' reflection

Published April 24, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr.'s words fuel 'The Drum Major Instinct,' which comes to JHU on April 26

Yellowed newspaper clipping of riot police

Hopkins history

'A time of great pain'

Published April 11, 2018

JHU's Homewood campus was largely insulated from the unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, but many on campus were moved to action

Women's history month

Harriet Tubman, real-life action hero

Published March 8, 2018

Maryland-born abolitionist and humanitarian is 'as heroic as it gets,' says historian N. D. B. Connolly

MLK Commemoration

Civil rights icon Minnijean Brown Trickey headlines annual event

Published Jan 9, 2018

She was a member of the Little Rock Nine, nine teens selected to desegregate Central High School in Arkansas in 1957 after Brown v. Board of Education decision