Bernard Bates, Black farmers leader and fighter to the end
![Bernard Bates, leader of fight by Black farmers to keep their land, shows documents from his legal battles. His dignity, courage and fighting spirit were inspiring to all who knew him.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Bates_8608-300x218.jpg)
…in Nicodemus, one of a dozen Black farming communities in Northwest Kansas settled by African Americans in the late 1800s after the Civil War and their emancipation. I had the…
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…in Nicodemus, one of a dozen Black farming communities in Northwest Kansas settled by African Americans in the late 1800s after the Civil War and their emancipation. I had the…
…trial of three former cops charged with violating the civil rights of George Floyd, who died under the knee of cop Derek Chauvin. The perspectives raised by speakers at the…
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…became interested in Marxism in the early 1960s after getting involved in the civil rights movement and becoming a partisan of the Cuban Revolution where workers and peasants, led by…
…representation. The civil rights movement gained support of working people in the South and internationally. In 1969 the U.K.’s Labour Party government sent troops to the North in an attempt…
Working people of all nationalities demonstrated in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, above, May 18 to commemorate those who died in the country’s 1983-2009 civil war. The victims included tens of…
…governments during post-Civil War Radical Reconstruction. Top: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (in front of tree) and staff in Virginia, less than a year before slave-holders’ rebellion was crushed in April…
…associations, and civil rights groups, including the NAACP, which submitted a friend of the court brief recalling the role of student activism during the Civil Rights Movement and the importance…