Josephine Butler and Environmental Activism in Washington, DC
The first time I heard about Josephine Butler was when I stepped into the building named after her––the Josephine Butler
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Gender
Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”
*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls
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Online Forum: A History of Student Activism
January 8–12, 2018 A line of African American students walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during
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Black Gay History and the Fight Against AIDS
During the 1980s and 1990s, African American AIDS activists used Black gay history as a tool in the fight against AIDS.
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Portraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
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