Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom
On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot
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Author: Denise Lynn
Top 10 of 2018 – #7 – The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women
*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number
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The Rhetoric and Methods of the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote
After attempting to register Black voters, pushing school integration, and challenging segregation in transportation throughout the 1950s, activists in Mississippi
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The Deportation of Claudia Jones
This is the final installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first and second installments. At the
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Black Radicalism and the Trial of Claudia Jones
This is the second installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first installment here. Claudia Jones believed that
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