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Black Women’s Voices and the Archive

November 15, 2017November 17, 2017 Halee Robinson archives, Belle Meade Plantation, Black women, Public History, slavery, violence

In 1886, Charles Dudley Warner, a Massachusetts-born writer, traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to learn about the Southern way of life.

The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Alyssa Collins black feminism, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, intersectionality, law, religion, sexuality

In today’s post, Alyssa Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, interviews Rosalind Rosenberg

"Chicago race riot - beginning of the riot; White and Negroes leaving Twenty-ninth Street beach after the drowning of Eugene Williams." 1922. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Sex, Swimming, and Chicago’s Racial Divide

October 3, 2017October 8, 2017 Betsy Schlabach Chicago, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

Rethinking Religion and Race in the Great Migration

September 27, 2017October 1, 2017 Emily Clark #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

Uncovering New Sources for Research on Black Religion

September 26, 2017October 1, 2017 Danielle Brune Sigler #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld opens her book New World A-Coming with