Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals
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
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
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
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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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa
As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these
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