Search Results for: Civil War

Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller

February 26, 2018March 1, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Jim Crow, law, poverty, violence

Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor

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W. E. B. Du Bois, World War I, and the Question of Failure

February 19, 2018February 24, 2018 Chad Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. 2018 marks both the sesquicentennial of W. E. B.

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A Troubled Past: The United States and Africa since World War II

February 16, 2018February 20, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy africa, Anticolonialism, Donald Trump, imperialism, racism, Soviet Union

A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump sparked yet another international controversy with his reference to “sh**hole countries” to describe

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Mississippi’s Civil Rights Museum: Reflections from a Native Daughter

February 14, 2018February 16, 2018 Tiyi Morris Activism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Donald Trump, racism

Several weeks ago, I attended the opening activities for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The museum represents a long-overdue,

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The Hidden History of the Civil Rights Act of 1960

February 8, 2018February 13, 2018 William Sturkey black politics, electoral politics, Jim Crow, South

You might be asking: “Was there a Civil Rights Act of 1960?” Yes indeed there was. And it was quite

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