Centering New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South
Far too often, the South, and especially the Black South connote backwardness in the imaginations of scholars and activists alike.
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“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force
This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her
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Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named
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