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Race, Gender, and Religion in New Jersey’s Civil Rights Movement

January 23, 2025January 19, 2025 Cherisse Jones-Branch 0 Comments
#GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, civil rights, education

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Hettie V. Williams has

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Mollie Moon and Funding the Civil Rights Movement

January 10, 2024January 1, 2024 Mickell Carter biography, Civil Rights Movement, Fundraising, Molly Moon, Review

Elegance. Galas. Balls. Fashion shows. Fine dining. When we think about the Civil Rights Movement these words typically do not

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CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, Civil Rights Movement

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in the spring of 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer along with a racially diverse group

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Online Forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement

April 10, 2023April 9, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

April 11–18, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on

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CFP: Howard Thurman’s Spiritual and Intellectual Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

January 27, 2023January 23, 2023 AAIHS Editors CFP, Civil Rights Movement, Howard Thurman, Mysticism, Online Forum, religion

Gregory Ellison’s recently published edited volume on Howard Thurman explores the varied roles that the theologian, mystic, professor, and preacher

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