Activism - AAIHS

Black Queer Lives: A Conversation with Moya Bailey and Laura Lovett

November 23, 2021November 22, 2021 Erik Wallenberg black feminism, Gender, sexuality

Conversations in BlackFreedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement

October 5, 2021October 4, 2021 Brandon K. Winford black protest, Civil Rights Movement, education

The 1960 sit-in movement that began in Greensboro on February 1 is a familiar story when it comes to Black

Black Women, Sanderson Farms, and the Strike for Better Conditions

October 4, 2021October 3, 2021 Derrion Arrington Activism, Black women, Gender

African American Women in Industry, 1939-1945 (New York Public Library) “Try Miss Goldy Chickens, and try a little

Critical Race Theory and the Misappropriating of Martin Luther King, Jr.

September 30, 2021September 29, 2021 Tyler Parry black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, education

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking Against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, April 27, 1967 (Wikimedia Commons)