HBCUs and the Red Scare
In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation
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Black history
Black Virginians and the American Revolution
In the summer of 1782, nearly nine months after Patriot victory at the Battle of Yorktown during the US War
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Reconsidering Black Reform Work in the Interwar Period: A Retrospective on Canaan, Dim and Far
This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Panic had taken hold
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Pittsburgh Reformers and the Black Freedom Struggle
This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Historian Adam Lee Cilli’s
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Migrants, Reformers, and Pittsburgh’s Labor Movement
This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. On January 19, 1841,
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