by Drick Boyd | Jun 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
For the past several years on or around the Fourth of July, I have made a practice of re-reading portions of Frederick Douglass’ famous July 5, 1852 speech in Rochester, NY entitled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Speaking at the height of a...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Like Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, tells a part of US history...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
In 1954 the Supreme Court issued their decision on the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, KS, which outlawed school desegregation, effectively nullifying the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson decision that allowed for “separate but equal” treatment of...
