Black Cheerleaders and A Long History of Protest - AAIHS
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In November 2018, Kayla Morris, a member of the San Francisco 49ers’s Gold Rush cheerleading squad, became the first NFL cheerleader to take a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Her protest follows in the footsteps of former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling during the anthem to protest police brutality in
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Celebrating Black History Month Cheer and Brutus Alumni Society
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How 1960s Cheerleaders Led Civil Rights Charge In Texas
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Black Teachers and Liberation: A CBFS Interview - AAIHS
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Black Athletes, Anthem Protests, and the Spectacle of Patriotism - AAIHS
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Black Cheerleaders: A fight for integration – The UK's number one Cheerleading Blog
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black lives matter - AAIHS
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AAIHS - African American Intellectual History Society
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AFAM Blog The Public
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Springfield, IL Hooters Girls - Football Jerseys
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black protest - AAIHS