Book Review-Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in A Military Town
This is a guest post by Le’Trice Donaldson, a historian who specializes in 19th and 20th century African American military
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Birmingham in Five Acts
Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named
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Charnesia Corley & a Storify for the #blkwomensyllabus
This past Monday, a young black woman in Texas named Charnesia Corley was stopped by the police as she ran
Read moreConfederate Flags in the Jim Crow North
Photo: Opponents of local civil rights activists raise a Confederate flag in the Bronx, July 1963 *** Over the years,
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On June 30th, 1974 an armed gunman strode into the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The church, located in
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