Black Political Thought - AAIHS - Page 17

Black Women’s Expansive Vision For Reproductive Freedom

August 4, 2022July 25, 2022 Ashley Farmer #ReproductiveRights, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Black women, reproductive justice

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” When Elaine Brown took the helm of

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Introduction: Black Women and Reproductive Rights

August 1, 2022July 29, 2022 Hettie Williams #ReproductiveRights, Black women, health, reproductive justice, Supreme Court

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” “The Constitution does not confer a right

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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual

June 23, 2022August 4, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. biography, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, James Farmer, Jim Crow

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Searching for Anna Douglass in the Archives

June 6, 2022June 5, 2022 Daina Ramey Berry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBio, Black women, Gender

On a warm August afternoon in 1882, 3,000 family, friends, and acquaintances gathered to pay their respects to Mrs. Anna

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