W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History
In 2018, scholars celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois via published essays, symposiums, and commemorative
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Black history
The History of Black College Football
Reflecting on his time as a member of the Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) football team, journalist Eric “Ric”
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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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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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