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Online Forum: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

October 1, 2018October 17, 2018 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police violence, racism, Resistance, Unseen Light

October 8-12, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum based

"Husbands, wives, and families sold indiscriminately to different purchasers, are violently separated; probably never to meet again." 1853. New York Public Library.

Slavery, Family Separation, and the Ransom Case of John Weems

September 11, 2018September 16, 2018 Jessica Parr archives, race, slave trade, slavery

During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people.

50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

July 19, 2018July 26, 2018 Duncan Tarr Activism, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, capitalism

On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge

There Is No NFL Without Black Labor

June 19, 2018June 23, 2018 Louis Moore black protest, Colin Kaepernick, Resistance, sports

“We don’t want four boys from Oakland telling us how to run our stadium,” Ray Schuessler defiantly demanded in his

Martin Luther King Jr. and Workers’ Rights in Baltimore

April 4, 2018April 7, 2018 Jane Berger Baltimore, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities, Resistance

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. In 1968, municipal sanitation workers