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Envisioning Black Memphis at Midcentury

October 9, 2018October 18, 2018 Beverly Greene Bond Black women, racism, religion, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light By 1940, Memphis, Tennessee was – with

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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.

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‘From the Tricontinental to the Global South’: A New Book on Race and Transnational Solidarity

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black radical tradition, Black radicalism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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A History of Truth in These Troubled Times

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Hettie Williams black politics, Black women, Donald Trump, electoral politics, Politics

A conversation about history, truth, and the American experience is necessary in these troubled times. The truth is under assault

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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

Mentha Morrison: A Story of Debt Peonage in Jim Crow Georgia

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 La Toya Tanisha Francis and Patrick Rael black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, racism, South

Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of

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