Black Urban History - AAIHS

The Interior Lives of Black Youth

In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

The summer of 2020 has seen extraordinary uprisings against policing in the United States. An estimated 15 to 26 million

Late on May 30, 2020, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to national notoriety with a passionate speech that rebuked not

In 1968, Washington Post journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood named police brutality as one of the factors motivating protestors