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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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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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Memory, Memorials, and History

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 Alisha J. Hines archives, Civil War, Historical Memory, museums, race, slavery, South, white supremacy

“On this Juneteenth I’m on a tour being conducted by Jefferson Davis’s great grandson.” –@heirofElijah, June 19, 2019 The morning started

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