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Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

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

‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald

January 14, 2019January 29, 2019 Ashley Farmer Activism, biography, Black Power, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of

Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement

January 9, 2019January 29, 2019 Louis Moore black protest, Civil Rights Movement, segregation, sports

Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of

The Rhetoric and Methods of the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote

December 14, 2018December 24, 2018 Denise Lynn Mississippi, racism, Resistance, South, voting, white supremacy

After attempting to register Black voters, pushing school integration, and challenging segregation in transportation throughout the 1950s, activists in Mississippi

Frederick Douglass and Fugitivity

November 26, 2018December 3, 2018 Manisha Sinha Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, fugitivity, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. If I had to choose a single