HBCUs and the Red Scare
In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation
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The Life of Louis Fatio: American Slavery and Indigenous Sovereignty
In 1892 a reporter for the Missouri-based Daily Globe-Democrat interviewed an elderly Black man by the name of Louis Fatio living near
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The Black Family, Landownership, and Tobacco Culture
This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In a country
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The Black “New South” in Intellectual History
Atlanta protestors and National Guard at Black Lives Matter protest, Atlanta, June 1, 2020 The idea of the New South
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The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander
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