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Dorothy Height and the Roots of a Black Intellectual-Activist

September 28, 2022September 23, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Civil Rights Movement, Dorthy I. Height, Great Migreation, Intellectual History, Intellectual Identity, Racial Justice

Dorothy I. Height was a model Black intellectual-activist. She challenged racism and sexism at an early age, setting the stage for a

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Historicizing Black Left Feminism in Prerevolutionary Cuba

September 21, 2022September 14, 2022 Takkara Brunson Black Left Feminism, Black women, Cuba, feminism, Women

In April 1925, white feminist leaders invited tobacco stemmer Inocencia Valdés to speak before delegates of the Second National Women’s

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#BuffaloSyllabus

September 19, 2022September 18, 2022 The Black Buffalo Syllabus Collective #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackBuffalo, Racial Violence, teaching

This post is part of our online roundtable on “Black Buffalo” When the national attention shifted elsewhere and the media was no

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Black Buffalo, Food Apartheid, and Residential Segregation

September 16, 2022September 11, 2022 J Coley #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackBuffalo, black politics, black protest, Resistance, white supremacy

This post is part of our online roundtable on “Black Buffalo.” On the afternoon of May 14, 2022, I was sitting

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How Public Policy Shaped Buffalo’s Segregated Geography

September 15, 2022September 14, 2022 Anna Blatto #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackBuffalo, black politics, black protest, Resistance, white supremacy

This post is part of our forum on “Black Buffalo.” Click here to view the author’s maps of Buffalo. An

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