Mollie Moon and Funding the Civil Rights Movement
Elegance. Galas. Balls. Fashion shows. Fine dining. When we think about the Civil Rights Movement these words typically do not
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Book Review
Black Women Public Intellectuals in U.S. History and Culture
The field of Black women’s intellectual history has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Works such as Toward an Intellectual
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Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism
J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways
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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State
In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through
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The Legal History of Travel Discrimination
Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,
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