Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller
Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor
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Gender
Set the World on Fire: A New Book on Black Nationalist Women’s Activism
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement
On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating
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New Directions in Black Women’s History
The New Directions in Female Bondage roundtable at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), featured the recent
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The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women
The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent
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