Matt Nichter

nearly *7 years* wait on a routine FOIA request to declassify a thin FBI file (125 pages)

good stuff in the Missouri Historical Review (July 2024)
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you're right, there was just one meeting. the same SA wrote two reports about it, on different dates and with different information, hence my confusion

don't talk to the FBI without a lawyer present, ideally an experienced movement lawyer. don't invite them into your apartment and try to politely deflect their questions, they may twist anything you say

that was her second interview with the FBI

according to the agent - whose account may be inaccurate - "The only person she [Lorde] mentioned during the [first] interview that she considered a Communist was her former room-mate, Ruth Heit."

No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine - Haymarket House Join Jeff Schuhrke, Sarah Lazare, Nesreen Hasan in conversation about Schuhrke latest book No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine. About the Book US trade unionists are o...

book launch w/ @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social
Tuesday, Nov. 11
6:30 pm Central time / 7:30 pm Eastern Time
f2f in Chicago + live stream anywhere. donations appreciated

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In his new book, No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, historian Jeff Schuhrke explains that the U.S. labor movement has never been neutral when it comes to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

Review by Digital Organizer Samantha Cooney: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...

Hotels, restaurants, pools, parks, gas stations, restrooms, drinking fountains and roadside stops were not equally open to all Americans. The Green Book Project archives the data and memorializes this important history of segregation greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
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Arun Kundnani (@arunkundnani.bsky.social), "Can Universities be Antiracist? Liberal Scholarship in Genocidal Times," Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 103 (2025), pp. 107-117

@pmheideman.bsky.social provides a precis of a classic by Claus Offe, a giant of critical sociology who recently passed along

I look forward to meeting you at the conference, Andrew

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition As an alumnus of Morehouse College, Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘48 is the product of a rich and vibrant “circle of culture” encompassing the various places and means by which Black peoples examined, disc

On the “Black Liberal Arts Tradition.” Morehouse next Thursday thru Saturday. If you’re in ATL come through. Some great papers and keynotes from Joshua Myers and Crystal Sanders.

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Ann Fagan Ginger, presente!

The Cold War Against Labor Volume One : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive An anthology edited by Ann Fagan Ginger and David Christiano

Ann Fagan Ginger wrote or edited more than 20 books.

I learned a lot about repression and resistance during the McCarthy era from her The Cold War Against Labor (2 vols., co-edited with David Christiano)

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In 2001, Ann pressured Harvard University to finally acknowledge firing her first husband, the historian Ray Ginger, for his refusal to comply with Massachusetts' "un-American activities" board in 1954.

When the Berkeley Free Speech Movement erupted in October 1964, Ann spoke from atop the police car that students had surrounded in Sproul Plaza, affirming their right to assemble there.

Ann Fagan Ginger, Tireless Defender of Civil Liberties, Dies at 100

"At 100, Ms. Ginger was among the last of a generation of lawyers and activists who weathered McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort during the 1960s and after." 🧵

I posted more about Chivers here:

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I do have some doubts about its accuracy, because King's college transcript doesn't list the professors' names, and Morehouse allowed students to take "exchange" classes at other HBCUs in Atlanta

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below are King's courses at Morehouse, according to the King papers project, which triangulated using several sources

Walter Chivers was the only Sociology professor at Morehouse, until King's senior year

in those days, the typical Morehouse student took 5 classes per semester, and a major required 8-10 classes

Listen to historian @josephamccartin.bsky.social detail the essential role of Jews in the U.S. labor movement, which he had to explain to antiunion members of Congress trying to label contemporary unions with “antisemitism.” laborhistorytoday.podbean.com/e/unmasking-...

having said that, the targets of state repression are much broader now than during the McCarthy era