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Ida Taught Me

May 16, 2020May 19, 2020 Koritha Mitchell Activism, Black radicalism, Black women, civil rights

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

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Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC

April 30, 2020April 26, 2020 R. Drew Smith Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, religion

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

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A Faithful Heretic: Joseph Lowery and the Politics of the Mass Movement

April 28, 2020April 26, 2020 Corey D. B. Walker Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, religion

A strange land requires a familiar song. That’s why members of the community of faith sing the Lord’s song in

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“HOLC Residential Security Map,” Los Angeles, 1939.

Racism After Redlining

April 21, 2020April 23, 2020 N.D.B Connolly civil rights, housing, Racial Capitalism

Practically any modern American historian can narrate a brief history of redlining in the United States. As the story goes,

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A New Book on the History of Black College Football

October 25, 2019October 23, 2019 J. T. Roane civil rights, HBCU history, integration, segregation, sports

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

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