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Atlanta’s Black Libraries and the Push for Black Voters

After a federal court ruling invalidated Georgia’s all-white primary in 1946, there was a huge push to form a coalition

This article was originally published on April 29, 2015. Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

Throughout much of the twentieth century, Florida’s warm climate and long sunny days managed to attract the nation’s elites. The

In today’s post, Adam X. McNeil, a regular contributor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. David Silkenat on his new book,