The “Families’ Cause” in the Post-Civil War Era
“In spite of all that may be said of the new South and its willingness to set the issues of
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Jim Crow
The Interior Lives of Black Youth
In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History
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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the
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Looking Back: Convict Leasing and the Trusty System
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Over the past four
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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning
Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.
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