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Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California

Between the 1830s and 1890s, the Colored Conventions Movement transformed Black political organizing across the US. Of the thirty states

On November 2, 1914, twenty eight-year-old James H. Teagle, the “colored” chauffeur for Philadelphia City Controller John Walton, left his

Within a frame of a two competing ideas of the United States “one liberal, the other illiberal,” Journalism and Jim Crow

The intersections of race and place lie at the heart of my ongoing DOCUMERICA series for Black Perspectives. Through the

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ From the presidential debates to anti-racist reading lists,