Interwar Period - AAIHS - Page 4

Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central

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Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019 J. T. Roane Chicago, police brutality, police violence, prisons, repression, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: A New Book in Civil Rights History

May 31, 2019June 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, labor, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

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Race and Music in Memphis

October 11, 2018October 17, 2018 Charles L. Hughes Jim Crow, music, race, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light In 1992, Rufus Thomas was interviewed by

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