Lessons from Imprisoned Black Intellectuals
*This essay is part of our online forum on ‘The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition,’ organized by Stephen Wilson and Garrett Felber.
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Black history
Civil Rights Activism in the “Jim Crow North”
Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets
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The Black Freedom Struggle of the North
Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,
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The Role of Violence in the Abolitionist Movement
On September 11 1851, George Ford, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley, and Joshua Hammond arrived at William and Eliza Parker’s home
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How Racist Ideas Shaped the Era of Reconstruction
Growing up, I’ve heard many definitions of the term racism, however just last year I read the best definition to
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