Online Forum: W. E. B. Du Bois @ 150
*February 19-23, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on W. E. B. Du
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Jim Crow
The Hidden History of the Civil Rights Act of 1960
You might be asking: “Was there a Civil Rights Act of 1960?” Yes indeed there was. And it was quite
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African American Novelist Frank Yerby’s Writings on Race
African American novelist Frank Yerby grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where he attended Paine College. Later he attended Fisk University and taught briefly
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The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women
The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent
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The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
One of the most painful and haunting images that I recall from Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising:
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