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Review: Kipp Dawson

Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: An activist, coal miner, and educator, Kipp Dawson organized on the frontlines of nearly every major US freedom struggle in the second half of the 20th century through the early 21st century.She participated in and helped to lead some of the largest and most well-known sit-ins, rallies, marches, and campaigns that led to crucial victories.Yet the movements sustained constant defeats and setbacks.Dawsonʼs own social identities -as a lesbian, Jewish, working-class woman from a multi-racial family -frequently meant she faced government surveillance, harassment, and intra-movement bigotry.Using peer-reviewed scholarship, as well as interactive tools including StoryMapsJS, TimelineJS, ArcGIS, and tablet-based interaction for in-person visitors, Kipp Dawson: The Struggle is the Victory documents her lifetime of work.This public history site offers a multimedia, open educational resource authored by students, staff, and faculty at Carnegie Mellon
Author: Paul Garza
Institution: Indiana University
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7166304955
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