Denise Lynn – AAIHS

Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019March 17, 2019 Denise Lynn 1 Comment
Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom

February 6, 2019March 31, 2019 Denise Lynn 1 Comment
criminal justice system, sexual violence

On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot

Top 10 of 2018 – #7 – The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women

December 20, 2018December 24, 2018 Denise Lynn #TopTen

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number

The Rhetoric and Methods of the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote

December 14, 2018December 24, 2018 Denise Lynn Mississippi, racism, Resistance, South, voting, white supremacy

After attempting to register Black voters, pushing school integration, and challenging segregation in transportation throughout the 1950s, activists in Mississippi

The Deportation of Claudia Jones

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black nationalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, criminal justice system

This is the final installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first and second installments. At the

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