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Domestic Workers and the Civil Rights Movement

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

We are excited to announce the newly elected Executive Board officers of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)! Each

Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events

In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically