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History, Memory, and Racial Violence in America

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Historical Memory, Historiography, Jim Crow, lynching, mass incarceration, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South, white supremacy

In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National

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May We Forever Stand: A New Book on the Black National Anthem

April 28, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane archives, black politics, culture, education, Jim Crow, music, Resistance, South

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A New Book on A North Carolina Journalist and Activist

April 21, 2018April 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black press, Jim Crow, journalism, South

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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An Unseen Light: A New Book on the Black Freedom Struggle in Memphis

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Civil Rights Movement, culture, Gender, Memphis, religion, Resistance, Social Movements, South

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

March 9, 2018March 15, 2018 Keri Leigh Merritt #MasterlessMen, poverty, reconstruction, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the

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