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October 14, 2021

Timuel Black, Civil Rights Champion And Historian, Dies At 102: ‘Tim Gave His All To All Of Us’

Maxwell Evans Block Club Chicago

The Civil Rights icon, who moved to Chicago in 1919 as one of the earliest participants in the Great Migration, died Wednesday at his Drexel Boulevard home.

July 25, 2019

An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Omer Bartov, Doris Bergen, Andrea Orzoff, Timothy Snyder, and Anika Walke, et al. The New York Review of Books

We are scholars who write on the Holocaust and genocide. We are deeply concerned about the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s recent “Statement Regarding the Museum’s Position on Holocaust Analogies.” We write this public letter to urge its retraction

July 5, 2016

The Loss of James Green

The Boston Globe

James Green, 71, UMass Boston Labor Historian and Writer, Boston Globe Obituary The Loss of Dr. James (Jim) Green, by Bill Fletcher

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