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Topic: civil rights era

Donald Trump; Muhammad Ali (Getty/Alex Wong/AP Photo)

Trump's racist Muhammad Ali troll

Amanda Marcotte
President Lyndon B Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty/Hulton Archive)

The truth about LBJ and MLK

Phillip F. Nelson
Martin Luther King Jr., flanked by his wife Coretta and John Lewis, leads a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (AP)

The Civil Rights movement, weaponized

Jeanne Theoharis
Jim Jones leading a Peoples Temple service, with Marceline standing behind him. Jones kept a vessel on a shelf behind his podium so he could discreetly relieve himself during hours-long Temple services. (Special Collections and University Archives, San Diego State University Library & Information Access)

The myths of Jonestown

Bob Calhoun
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John Lewis marches on

Philip Eil
John W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who were charged with the murder of 14-year-old African American Emmett L.Till, and acquitted by an all-white jury. (AP)

A legacy predating Ferguson

Agunda Okeyo
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