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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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A Giant in the Black Academy: The Individual and Collective Historical Vision of Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

October 24, 2019October 18, 2019 Stephen G. Hall #RosalynTerborgPenn, black intellectual history, Black women, education, pedagogy, teaching

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Stephen G. Hall honoring the life and work of Dr. Rosalyn

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‘I Have a Copyright’: Interview with Daniel Fleming, Winner of the 2019 Maria Stewart Prize

July 24, 2019July 26, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, archives, black politics, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., race

This is an interview with Dr. Daniel Fleming, whose article “‘I Have a Copyright’: The Privatization of Martin Luther King’s

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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-wing Talking Point

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, archives, black politics, education, Historical Memory, Politics, race, reparations, slavery

In various corners of the internet, memes circulate about a Black man identified as “Anthony Johnson,” believed to be a

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Why the United States Needs More Museums about Slavery and Abolition, Not Another About the Civil War

July 11, 2019July 1, 2019 Marlene L. Daut African Diaspora, archives, Civil War, education, Frederick Douglass, museums, Post-Civil War, Public History, race, slavery

When I first stepped into the foyer of the brand new American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, I

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