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  • The Civil Rights Movement and Its Anti-Communist Opponents

    The Civil Rights Movement and Its Anti-Communist Opponents

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    The 1950s-1960s civil rights movement drew widespread opposition that frequently called Martin Luther King, Jr. and other activists as “communists,” as this John Birch Society card shows. It’s numbered CR2. There just had to be a CR1. It took years to find, and here’s its story.

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Timothy Van Staden
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The world changed in many ways in the 1910s. One dynamic change was when it became proper for a young fellow to “date” a woman for a time away from chaperones, instead of “court” her, which was meant to lead to marriage. Professor Tim looks at the new technology of that decades and finds some interesting firsts.

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