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Race, Gender, and Religion in New Jersey’s Civil Rights Movement

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

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

Both Minister Malcolm X and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. are oftentimes referred to as civil rights activists. Peniel E.

For as long as public housing has been described as a “failure,” lower-income Black women have been the face of

In 1948, the Cincinnati City Planning Commission published its “Metropolitan Master Plan.” It was an ambitious outline of the city’s