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As the Democratic National Convention returns to Chicago, there’s an appetite in that city to revisit films from the bloody and violent time the convention was last held in that city: 1968.
You think 2024 has been packed with a ceaseless and exhausting stream of consequential events? So did Americans in 1940, 1968 and 1973.
An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there in 2024.
There are similarities between the law-and-order language used by the 1968 and 2020 presidential candidates and the racial tension and political polarization both years. But much is different.
Protests over police violence and white supremacy have erupted in almost 600 US cities. A historian of black social movements says what’s happened after George Floyd’s death is unprecedented.
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Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History and American Culture, University of Michigan
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Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
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Professor of History and Law Faculty, The Ohio State University
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James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College
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Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism, Northwestern University
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Associate Professor, History, University of The Fraser Valley
