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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: A New Book on the Civil Rights Movement

January 22, 2018January 25, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr.

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 Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

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African Americans’ Civil Cases in the Jim Crow South

November 17, 2017November 20, 2017 Melissa Milewski economic justice, Jim Crow, law, race, South

In 1910, 48-year-old Rebecca Sallee fell into an open hole on a city street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, as she made

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New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter

July 24, 2017July 29, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Activism, black intellectual history, black lives matter, Black women, Gender

The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal

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Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Toward a New Interpretive Framework

June 10, 2017June 13, 2017 Gerald Horne #Horne, imperialism, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History Above all, I thank the editors

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