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Two African American women, half-length portrait, facing each other (Daniel Murray Collection, Library of Congress).

Black Women and the Politics of Respectability: An Introduction

April 24, 2017April 27, 2017 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women, Gender, racism

by Ralina L. Joseph & Jane Rhodes In the Spring of 2014 the two of us, former dissertation advisor and

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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo: Wikimedia.

Planning a Class Visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture

April 22, 2017April 25, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Public History, teaching

“The trip to the museum was a humbling experience. I felt the weight of the collective experience of my ancestors—their

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Women Picturing Revolution: An Interview with Lesly Deschler-Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago

April 21, 2017April 24, 2017 L. Jonathan Collier Black women, Public History, racism

This month I interviewed Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago about their event Women Picturing Revolution: Focus on Africa and

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“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

March 16, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher Tinson Activism, black intellectual history, Historiography

On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett

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Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma

March 2, 2017March 6, 2017 Jeremy C. Young Barack Obama, black politics, black protest, W.E.B. Du Bois

First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened

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