Sekou Franklin is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University and author of After the Rebellion: Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Generation.
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Sekou Franklin is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University and author of After the Rebellion: Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Generation.
Half a century on, we need to recommit ourselves to correcting the conditions that undergirded the civil unrest of the 1960s.Â
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