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Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

July 10, 2019June 30, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, black politics, economic justice, landownership, Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance, South, voting

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

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(Anti)Blackness, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and Guaidó’s Attempted Coup

July 9, 2019September 16, 2019 Layla Brown-Vincent African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, Latin America, race, racism

On January 23, 2019 with the support of US Vice President Mike Pence, Juan Guaidó, a white supremacist, anti-people, opposition

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Black Intellectual History and the Long Struggle for Freedom

June 10, 2019June 9, 2019 Chris Cameron #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, Activism, archives, black intellectual history, black politics, education, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ African American intellectual history has

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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Westenley Alcenat Constitution, economic justice, law, Racial Capitalism, slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

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Frederick Douglass, Family, and Biography

April 26, 2019October 31, 2019 Ezra Greenspan #DouglassForward, race, Resistance

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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