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Denying the Franchise as Incitement to Genocide

In 1951, William Patterson and the Civil Rights Congress presented a 238-page document to the United Nations accusing the United

Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of

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

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She

Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and