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The Warrior and the Poet: On James Baldwin and the Many Roles in Revolution

open access: yesJames Baldwin Review, 2020
Artists, scholars, and popular media often describe James Baldwin as revolutionary, either for his written work or for his role in the civil rights movement. But what does it mean to be revolutionary?
Nicholas Binford
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We Ain't Got Enough. Le musiche dei diritti civili da Marian Anderson a John Legend (e Kamasi Washington)

open access: yesIperstoria, 2016
Given that “the civil rights movement without its music would have been like a bird without its wings”, music is more and more often acknowledged for being the backbone to the struggles for the civil rights in the US, from the mid-fifties through the mid-
Franco Minganti
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FREEDOM'S SEEDS: Freedom Farmers

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2017
First paragraph: Reverend Wendell Paris is currently assistant pastor at the New Hope Baptist Church of Jackson, Mississippi. He and his brother George, and George’s wife Alice, were all activists and organizers in the civil rights movement in Alabama ...
Monica M. White
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The Meaning of Being an Activist of the Disability Rights Movement in Bali: A Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Social Movement Activists

open access: yesJurnal HAM, 2023
The disability rights movement is exercised by movement actors who are able to transform their experiences of suffering into power to bring about changes toward the fulfillment of the rights of persons with disabilities.
I Made Anom Wiranata
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Civil Rights 3.0 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
It is now commonplace to hear the LGBT rights movement being described as the last, or the next, or today’s, pre-eminent civil rights issue. This chapter will explore what that means from several perspectives: What does the label tell us about the civil ...
Hunter, Nan D.
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From Clinic to Computation: Multiscale Bioengineering Strategies for Durable Biological Aortic Valve Replacements

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bioprosthetic aortic valves have revolutionized the treatment of aortic stenosis, but their durability is limited by structural valve deterioration (SVD). This review focuses on the pericardial tissue at the heart of these valves, examining how its mechanical properties and calcification drive fatigue and failure.
Gabriele Greco   +7 more
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The Role of Black Christian Beliefs in the Civil Rights Movement: A Paradigm for a Better Understanding of Religious Freedom

open access: yesReligions
This paper builds upon and extends Christian and legal scholarship on the civil rights movement by illuminating a climate of religious freedom that served as a catalyst for and was integral to the success of the spirited activism of the civil rights ...
Darryl Dejuan Roberts
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'The Civil Rights Movement'

open access: yes, 2021
Bob Dylan’s interest in civil rights is conventionally traced to his Greenwich Village girlfriend, Suze Rotolo. The leftist daughter of communists, she worked as a secretary at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) office in the midst of Freedom Summer, thus introducing Dylan to the civil rights movement.
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When Civil Rights Go Wrong: Agenda and Process in Civil Rights Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
The aging of the persons leading the civil rights movement is only a metaphor for a more serious aging process that afflicts the movement. It is a sclerotic condition that has kept an old agenda and once-prodding - but now increasingly intolerant - ideas
Abernathy, Charles F.
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Dual‐Programmable Architected Magnetic Soft Materials: Tuning Mechano–Electric Responses by Inverse Design

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Materials that can deform, sense, and autonomously generate power in response to wireless magnetic fields, through both magnetic‐actuated shape transformation and charge generation, are an emerging focus in advanced functional materials research.
Zhi Zhao, Xiaojia Shelly Zhang
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