Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount
In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black
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Jim Crow
‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald
In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of
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Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement
Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of
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The Rhetoric and Methods of the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote
After attempting to register Black voters, pushing school integration, and challenging segregation in transportation throughout the 1950s, activists in Mississippi
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Frederick Douglass and Fugitivity
*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. If I had to choose a single
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