Jessie Kindig
Jessie Kindig is an M.A. student of American history at the University of Washington in Seattle, focusing on twentieth-century American radicalism and social movements. She received a B.A. with departmental honors in American Studies from Barnard College at Columbia University in 2004. In addition to her academic studies, Jessie has worked as a research historian for Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Seven Stories, 2004) and “Rebel Voices,” the book’s theatrical adaptation by The Culture Project in New York City; Arnove’s Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal (The New Press, 2006); and Ahmed Shawki’s Black Liberation and Socialism (Haymarket, 2006), among other titles.
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Bloody Sunday Protest March, Selma, Alabama, March 7, 1965
Between 1961 and 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had led a voting registration campaign in Selma, the seat...
March on Washington Movement (1941-1947)
The March on Washington Movement (MOWM) was the most militant and important force in African American politics in the early...
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963)
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, held on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C., was a landmark event...
Miriam Matthews (1905–2003)
Miriam Matthews was the first African American librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library system. Hired in 1927, she served...
Scottsboro Boys Trial and Defense Campaign (1931–1937)
The Scottsboro Boys were nine young black men, falsely accused of raping two white women on board a train near...
Moranda Smith (1915-1950)
Moranda Smith was a union organizer and rank-and-file leader of tobacco workers in North Carolina, who throughout the 1940s initiated...
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) was founded in Tyronza, Arkansas in July 1934 by black and white tenant farmers...
Aaron Dixon (1949- )
Aaron Dixon was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 2, 1949. He moved with his family to Seattle, Washington at a young age and grew...
