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CFP: Howard Thurman’s Spiritual and Intellectual Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

January 27, 2023January 23, 2023 AAIHS Editors 0 Comments
CFP, Civil Rights Movement, Howard Thurman, Mysticism, Online Forum, religion

Gregory Ellison’s recently published edited volume on Howard Thurman explores the varied roles that the theologian, mystic, professor, and preacher

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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Rhonda Y. Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Activism, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Prelude I teach a course

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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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What Civil Rights Acts: The Times-Picayune’s Editorial Silence on Civil Rights

December 2, 2021December 1, 2021 Bala Baptiste desegregation, Editorial, integration, Louisiana, New Orleans, Newspapers

The New Orleans morning daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, during the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, failed to publish a

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Domestic Workers and the Civil Rights Movement

September 2, 2021September 1, 2021 Ashley Everson Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first

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