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Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

The field of Black women’s intellectual history has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Works such as Toward an Intellectual

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who