Matt Nichter

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

at the local level, McCarthyite hysteria also fueled gigantic riots targeting the left and African Americans, most famously at Peekskill, but also in major cities like Pittsburgh and Chicago

Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):

Requiem for the Wagner Act Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.

July 5 marked the 90th anniversary of the signing of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act. There are important lessons to be taken from the sorry state of this aged labor law. One is that labor law reform will not rescue unions. Only union struggles can do that.
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5 Lessons From the Real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.

Thanks @thenation.com for understanding the importance of learning the actual lessons from Martin and Coretta Scott King for this Juneteenth, how much he is distorted in public discourse, and what they give us for our struggles today: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

extra butter please 🍿