Dara Walker - AAIHS

Writing “the People” Back In

February 25, 2020February 23, 2020 Dara Walker #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, black politics, Black women, education, education reform

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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The Modern Black Convention Movement and Black Youth Leadership

April 2, 2019August 12, 2022 Dara Walker #NationWithinANation, Activism, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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Black Power and the Detroit High School Organizing Tradition

August 16, 2018August 27, 2018 Dara Walker

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Dara Walker as

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Black Power and the Detroit High School Organizing Tradition

January 11, 2018January 15, 2018 Dara Walker #StudentActivismForum, black politics, Detroit, education, student activism

This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The sight of National Guard tanks rolling down the streets of Detroit

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