Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns
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Black Political Thought
HBCUs and the Red Scare
In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation
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Reconsidering Black Reform Work in the Interwar Period: A Retrospective on Canaan, Dim and Far
This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Panic had taken hold
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Pittsburgh Reformers and the Black Freedom Struggle
This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Historian Adam Lee Cilli’s
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Migrants, Reformers, and Pittsburgh’s Labor Movement
This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. On January 19, 1841,
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