The Women of the Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN)
*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within
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Activism
Historians and the Black Freedom Struggle in the North
*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within a Nation
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‘The Drum Major Instinct’: A New Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Remembering John O’Neal and the Free Southern Theater
John O’Neal, the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater (FST)–one of the cultural arms of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)–has
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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide
In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the
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