Gender - AAIHS

Black Women, Public Housing, and Resistance

For as long as public housing has been described as a “failure,” lower-income Black women have been the face of

In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son

On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a

During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, activists used marches, boycotts, sit-ins, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest to achieve

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated