Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books,
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Resistance
Intimate History, Radical Narrative
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Archival documents are scattered
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Educating Harlem: A New Book on Schooling and Resistance in New York
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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SNCC and/in the North
This year, one of the most important civil rights movement groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) celebrates the 60th
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The Long Struggle Against Educational Injustice
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated
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