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There are many leaders of today's protest movement – just like the civil rights movement

  • Written by Sarah Silkey, Professor of History and Social and Economic Justice, Lycoming College
imageDemonstrators march in the Black Mamas March to protest police brutality, June 27, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images

The recent wave of protests against police brutality and systemic racism has inspired numerous comparisons with the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

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