Will Mack
BA in history from Rutgers University
Will Mack is a graduate student at Southern New Hampshire University and will receive his MA in United States history in the spring of 2018. Will plans on advancing to a doctoral program in the fall of 2019 to focus on African American history, the civil rights movement, radicalism, the development of the carceral state, and labor history in the US. Will received his BA in history from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1999 and grew up in New York City.
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Hunter’s Point, San Francisco Uprising (1966)
The Hunter’s Point Uprising began on September 27, 1966, and lasted three days. At that time, it was the largest riot in...
The Central Park Five (1989)
The Central Park Five was a group of five young men–four African Americans (Yusef Salaam, 16; Anthony McCray, 16; Kharey...
Grand Rapids Uprising (1967)
The 1967 Grand Rapids Uprising occurred on July 25, 1967 in a predominantly black and impoverished neighborhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The uprising...
Richard Williams (?-?)
In the 1920s and 1930s, a number of African Americans moved to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) because the...
Wayland Rudd (1900-1952)
Wayland Rudd was an American-born actor who moved to the Soviet Union in 1932 as part of a group of 22 African Americans called...
Bobby Hutton (1950-1968)
Robert James Hutton, also known as Bobby or Lil’ Bobby, was the first recruit and first treasurer of the Black...
Louise Thompson Patterson (1901-1999)
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson, civil rights activist, communist, and educator, was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 9, 1901 to...
