James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto
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Black Political Thought
Dr. King and the Foundation of a Black Intellectual-Activist
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,
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The African American History Survey as an Intellectual Product
Countless Alabama school children take part in an annual fourth-grade field trip that includes tours of the Alabama State Capitol
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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad
William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women
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Albertha Johnston Murray: The Life of a Local Public Intellectual
Some of America’s most celebrated Black intellectuals—Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Ida B. Wells, Carter G. Woodson,
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