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Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom

February 6, 2019March 31, 2019 Denise Lynn criminal justice system, sexual violence

On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot

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