Search Results for: Civil War

Affluence and Community at the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company

May 23, 2019May 19, 2019 Paul R. Mullins #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, civil rights, Madam CJ Walker, Resistance

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death.  In

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Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy

May 10, 2019May 7, 2019 Adam H. Domby Historical Memory, primary source, racism, slavery

Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an

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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Westenley Alcenat Constitution, economic justice, law, Racial Capitalism, slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality

May 7, 2019May 5, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Gender, Jim Crow, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a

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Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South

May 3, 2019May 6, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, racism, 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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