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On the Passing of Historian Sterling Stuckey, 1932-2018

I first met Sterling Stuckey in Chicago fifty-five years ago. In the Spring of 1963, Sterling and a group of high school teachers and

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as

As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II

Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived

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