Envisioning Black Memphis at Midcentury
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light By 1940, Memphis, Tennessee was – with
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racism
African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement
The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council
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Mentha Morrison: A Story of Debt Peonage in Jim Crow Georgia
Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of
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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore
Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and
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Racism, Borders, and Black Europe
*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to
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