The Fight for Black Freedom Transcends National Borders
This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. In a recent news conference, Senate Minority Leader
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Civil Rights Movement
CORE’s Struggle for Fair Housing Rights in LA
It has been 60 years since the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) targeted racially segregated housing in Los Angeles. Although
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Black Social Gospel, Radical Politics, and Internationalism
Often the history of radical Black Christians seems to jump from Abolition to Civil Rights with very little in between.
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Call for Submissions: The Gary National Political Convention of 1972
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts centering on the Gary
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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present
What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a
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