Activism - AAIHS

Online Forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement

April 10, 2023April 9, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

April 11–18, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on

Writing Black Activist Lives: An CBFS Interview

March 28, 2023March 26, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Power, black protest, Black women

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

#CFP: Black Women and 19th Century America

March 24, 2023April 25, 2023 AAIHS Editors 19th Century, Black women, CFP, Charlotte Forten, Schools, Susie King Taylor

When discussing the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, numerous individuals and organizations tend to focus on the mid-twentieth century to highlight

Women of Color Consciousness and the Global Environmental Movement

March 6, 2023March 5, 2023 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, black internationalism

Grace Lee Boggs and Wangari Maathai were central figures in the development of the global environmental movement. Their work as

Black Student Activism and the Origins of the Stanford Canon Debate

March 1, 2023February 27, 2023 Brandon James Render Black Student Union, Curriculum, education, Higher education, Stanford, student activism

In the late 1980s, the Stanford University Black Student Union stood at the center of a controversy involving the school’s