Ryan Paul Haygood

President & CEO, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a leading legal advocacy organization that empowers urban residents to realize and achieve their radical potential. Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a passion for effecting systems change through a broad range of advocacy tools, including research, analysis, and writing, public education, grassroots organizing, communications, legislative strategies, and litigation.

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OPINION: Blocking the vote 40 years after Bloody Sunday
April 1, 2005 By Ryan Paul Haygood
The tragic, history-making events of “Bloody Sunday,” on March 7, 1965, in Selma, Ala., ultimately freed the vote for millions of African Americans. Forty years later, as we reflect on the march that led to passage...
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Juneteenth: free at last?
June 18, 2004 By Ryan Paul Haygood
Ralph Ellison immortalized “Juneteenth,” the annual celebration of the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when the enslaved Africans in Texas were actually emancipated, in his posthumous novel of the same name.
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Ryan Paul Haygood

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ryan Paul Haygood

OPINION: Blocking the vote 40 years after Bloody Sunday

Juneteenth: free at last?