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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors 0 Comments
black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

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Situating Nigerian Women in Global Black Politics Discourse

September 17, 2024September 17, 2024 Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma 2 Comments
#BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, African Diaspora, Gender, Nigeria

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In 1929, before the wave

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Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence

September 5, 2024August 13, 2024 Sean Gallagher 1 Comment
Black women, law, slave law, slavery

In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the

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Black Women’s Activism and the Long 1960s: A CBFS Interview

March 14, 2024March 11, 2024 Lucien Baskin Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

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CFP: Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

February 8, 2024February 2, 2024 AAIHS Editors CFP, Civil Rights Movement, UrbanRebellions

During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, activists used marches, boycotts, sit-ins, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest to achieve

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