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The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops

By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men served as US soldiers and sailors. Of that number, more than 17,000

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom stands apart as one of the most well-known events of the modern

There is much to learn from studying the Black Power Movement in the context of the Black intellectual-activist tradition. It takes

Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of