Search Results for: Civil War

Claudia Jones Against the Korean War

September 23, 2019September 16, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, antiwar activism, black internationalism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, capitalism

Peace was a central aspect of the post-World War II Black Freedom Struggle, partially because the nuclear bomb was only

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Online Roundtable–Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

September 3, 2019September 4, 2019 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower

September 9–13, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human

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Starfish and Guerrilla Warfare: Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30 Years

July 29, 2019July 28, 2019 Keelyn Bradley #TonguesUntied30, art, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality, trans identity

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. During a

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‘I Have a Copyright’: Interview with Daniel Fleming, Winner of the 2019 Maria Stewart Prize

July 24, 2019July 26, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, archives, black politics, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., race

This is an interview with Dr. Daniel Fleming, whose article “‘I Have a Copyright’: The Privatization of Martin Luther King’s

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Documenting Nannie Helen Burroughs: A New Book About a Pioneering Civil Rights Leader

July 12, 2019July 8, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, civil rights, race, 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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