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Centering Northern Black Women in the Civil Rights Narrative

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. As the body of

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. There will never be

On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert examines African American women’s engagement with the railroad