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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

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A Sampling of 2021 Black Perspectives Posts: January to June

January 26, 2022January 25, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism

The year in blogging for Black Perspectives in 2021 was one that was dedicated to both the usual cutting edge

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A Review of Black Perspectives Roundtables and CFPs in 2021

January 25, 2022January 24, 2022 Robert Greene II #AAIHSRoundtable, archives, black intellectual history, black lives matter, race

In 2021, Black Perspectives commissioned several roundtables and calls for papers. All of them either marked the occasion of an

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MLK And Lillian Smith

December 20, 2021December 19, 2021 Matthew Teutsch Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Gender, South

On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was

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Black Radicalism and the Right to Bail

December 6, 2021December 5, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky black radical tradition, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

New York’s LaGuardia Airport was abuzz. On December 9, 1951, two of the most well-known African American activists of the

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