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In Fall 2020, this public history, digital humanities project was launched by the history course HIS196H, COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: Comparative, Crisis-based Oral History in the American Experience as a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). The course explored the impact of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement in the context of twentieth Century American History by comparatively studying the intersectionality between disease and struggles for social justice. The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 and the Race Riots of 1919-1920; the early 1950s polio epidemic and the 1950s-1960s Civil Rights Movement; and the 1980s HIV-AIDS pandemic and the Gay Rights Movement were studied and substantively linked to COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter Movement.

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