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The Myth of the “Good” Protest

Posted on November 21, 2017 by lindaoppenheim

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Yale historian Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explains the similarity between Colin Kaepernick’s protest and that of Rosa Parks and the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins, refuting the commonly held belief that the latter two “materialized from an individual’s epiphany” without precedent and…

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Category: Opinion Tags: A. Philip Randolph, Black LIves Matter, Colin Kaepernick, Ella Baker, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Greensboro NC, Jim Crow, lunch counter, NAACP, Pauli Murray, protest, Rosa Parks, sit-ins

TCNJ students hold sit-in to protest college’s dissociation from Trenton

Posted on April 27, 2017 by lindaoppenheim

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Two dozen students at The College of New Jersey held a sit-in next door to President R. Barbara Gitenstein’s office on Wednesday afternoon protesting the college’s disengagement from Trenton and pointing to two main issues: renaming Loser Hall and reconsidering…

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Category: News Tags: Barbara Gitenstein, Loser Hall, protest, sit-ins, students, The College of New Jersey, Trenton

Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Posted on January 23, 2015 by lindaoppenheim

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From January 28 through March 1, 2015, The College of New Jersey’s Art Gallery will present, Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition will include 50 photographs by renowned photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon, whose 1960s…

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Category: Events Tags: civil rights movement, Danny Lyon, Freedom Rides, photographs, sit-ins, SNCC, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee