Civil Rights Movement - AAIHS

State Surveillance of the Black Freedom Movement in Memphis

October 12, 2018October 17, 2018 Anthony C. Siracusa #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence, Unseen Light

*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

Online Forum: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

October 1, 2018October 17, 2018 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police violence, racism, Resistance, Unseen Light

October 8-12, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum based

Gloria Richardson and the Struggle for Black Liberation

September 21, 2018September 25, 2018 Joseph R. Fitzgerald Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, race, Resistance

This is an excerpt from Joseph R. Fitzgerald’s The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, scheduled to be published

Paule Marshall’s “Brooklyn” and the #MeToo Movement

July 18, 2018July 23, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black women, Civil Rights Movement, New York, Racial Violence, sexual violence

“Sexual harassment? We didn’t even think to use the term back in the early fifties when this story takes place,”

An Unseen Light: A New Book on the Black Freedom Struggle in Memphis

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Civil Rights Movement, culture, Gender, Memphis, religion, Resistance, Social Movements, South

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