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How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Brandon James Render Black film, civil rights, race

Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,

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Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

September 18, 2020September 17, 2020 Andrew Grim electoral politics, police brutality, policing, Politics

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

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Civil Rights Activism in the “Jim Crow North”

August 20, 2020August 27, 2020 Matthew F. Delmont New York, segregation

Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets

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Civic Memory in a Radical Bristol: Edward Colston and Black Lives Matter 

June 17, 2020June 16, 2020 Adam Woodhouse black lives matter, black protest

On Sunday June 7,  2020, a Black man climbed up onto a plinth in the center of the British city of

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‘Duty Beyond the Battlefield’: A New Book About Black Soldiers’ Role in Shaping Early Civil Rights

May 25, 2020June 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors black soldiers, civil rights, military

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

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