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Historians and the Black Freedom Struggle in the North

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within a Nation

The history of Black peoples in Canada prior to the mid-nineteenth century is a complex and transnational story. In popular

John O’Neal, the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater (FST)–one of the cultural arms of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)–has

Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the