Interwar Period | AAIHS

Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe

July 16, 2019July 7, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black Marxism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, race

In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central

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Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019 J. T. Roane Chicago, police brutality, police violence, prisons, repression, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: A New Book in Civil Rights History

May 31, 2019June 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, labor, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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