‘The Drum Major Instinct’: A New Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Resistance
Remembering John O’Neal and the Free Southern Theater
John O’Neal, the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater (FST)–one of the cultural arms of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)–has
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Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence
Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s
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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide
In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the
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Therese Patricia Okoumou: Black Women’s Bodies and Public Protest
Tomorrow, March 19, Therese Patricia Okoumou will be sentenced for her protest climb of the Statue of Liberty this past
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