Search Results for: civil rights era

CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, Civil Rights Movement

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in the spring of 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer along with a racially diverse group

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Online Forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement

April 10, 2023April 9, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

April 11–18, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on

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CFP: Howard Thurman’s Spiritual and Intellectual Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

January 27, 2023January 23, 2023 AAIHS Editors CFP, Civil Rights Movement, Howard Thurman, Mysticism, Online Forum, religion

Gregory Ellison’s recently published edited volume on Howard Thurman explores the varied roles that the theologian, mystic, professor, and preacher

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Black Widows and the Struggle for Pensions after the Civil War

January 12, 2023January 6, 2023 Hilary Green #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, Civil War, Pensions, Women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. From enlistment to the

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Reading Practices, Civil War Archive, and the Black Family

January 9, 2023January 7, 2023 Brandi C. Brimmer #AAIHSRoundtable, #FamiliesCivilWar, Resistance, slavery

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. The Families’ Civil War:

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