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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”

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: A New Book on Visualizing Black America

December 10, 2018December 24, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere archives, black intellectual history, civil rights, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

Frederick Douglass and the United States Constitution

November 28, 2018December 3, 2018 Noelle Trent civil rights, Frederick Douglass Forum, Gender, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. The United States Constitution has a powerful and

The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America

October 18, 2018November 1, 2018 Stephen Robinson black politics, civil rights, Politics, race

African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon

“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.