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What is “Freedom” in the Black Freedom Struggle?

January 11, 2024January 5, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, black protest, black radical tradition

Freedom is at the center of the Black freedom struggle. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Strange Careers of the Jim

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Mollie Moon and Funding the Civil Rights Movement

January 10, 2024January 1, 2024 Mickell Carter biography, Civil Rights Movement, Fundraising, Molly Moon, Review

Elegance. Galas. Balls. Fashion shows. Fine dining. When we think about the Civil Rights Movement these words typically do not

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The Best Black History Books of 2023

December 11, 2023December 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors aaihs

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2023 on Black History, and they

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Black Women Public Intellectuals in U.S. History and Culture

December 1, 2023November 25, 2023 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black women's intellectual history, Politics, Shirley Chisholm

The field of Black women’s intellectual history has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Works such as Toward an Intellectual

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Documenting Black Appalachia

November 30, 2023November 22, 2023 E. James West Black Appalachia, Coal, DOCUMERICA, Great Migration, West Virginia

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

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