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African American Women on the American Railroad

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert examines African American women’s engagement with the railroad

In October 1969, sociology professor Nathan Hare spoke at a press conference at San Francisco State College, home of the

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness is a

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate