Search Results for: Civil War

Striving Toward Freedom and Black Pittsburgh

February 6, 2023February 4, 2023 Hettie Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Canaan, Dim and Far:

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On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences

November 7, 2022October 29, 2022 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, slavery

The experiences of enslaved women and girls in the wars of the United States has garnered increased scholarly attention, most

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Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory

October 18, 2022October 13, 2022 Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, and Caran Kennedy Racial Violence, Resistance

Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in

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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Rhonda Y. Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Activism, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Prelude I teach a course

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Charlotta Bass and the Cold War Peace Movement

March 15, 2022March 14, 2022 Denise Lynn black internationalism, Black women

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. A hundred different organized groups have urged the

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