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‘The Drum Major Instinct’: A New Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019August 12, 2022 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

Black Fans, Protest, and Power

March 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Louis Moore black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, racism

Playing the role of the heel, white wrestler Rod Rivera looked up at the segregated balcony in New Orleans’s Municipal

Black Radicalism in the Tumultuous 1960s

February 12, 2019March 31, 2019 Hasan Kwame Jeffries #RadicalIntellect, Activism, black internationalism, black politics, black press, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Radical Intellect

This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect In Radical Intellect, Christopher M. Tinson writes “a political and cultural history”

‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald

January 14, 2019January 29, 2019 Ashley Farmer Activism, biography, Black Power, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of