Search Results for: Civil Rights Movement

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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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa

May 30, 2017June 2, 2017 Marius Kothor black nationalism, civil rights, colonialism, West Africa

As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these

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Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 17, 2023November 7, 2023 A’Dorian Murray-Thomas black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily

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Septima Clark and the Fight for Civil Rights

October 26, 2023October 17, 2023 Tara Kirton Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, education

There are many names synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, but there are countless lesser-known individuals who played a critical

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Howard Thurman: A Bridge Between Movements

April 17, 2023April 16, 2023 Tryce D. Prince #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1897, a group of scholars and

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