Organizing in the Housing Projects of Cincinnati’s West End
In 1948, the Cincinnati City Planning Commission published its “Metropolitan Master Plan.” It was an ambitious outline of the city’s
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Rachel and Jackie Robinson and Housing Discrimination in Connecticut
As a sport historian who focuses on issues of inclusion and exclusion in the twentieth century United States, Jackie Robinson
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Black Homeownership Before World War II
On November 2, 1914, twenty eight-year-old James H. Teagle, the “colored” chauffeur for Philadelphia City Controller John Walton, left his
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The Black History Behind the Country’s Oldest Women’s Center
This spring, the Cambridge Women’s Center, the US’s oldest women’s center, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Public commemorations included press attention
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‘Race For Profit’: An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit.’ Dr. Taylor will be in conversation with Dr. Davarian
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