Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a
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Audley Moore and the Modern Reparations Movement
Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.
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The Struggle for Voting Rights and the Poor People’s Campaign
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated
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The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America
African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon
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State Surveillance of the Black Freedom Movement in Memphis
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light On March 28, 1968, five thousand Memphians gathered
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