Roundtables - AAIHS

Online Forum: W. E. B. Du Bois @ 150

February 10, 2018February 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors #DuBoisForum, W.E.B. Du Bois

*February 19-23, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on W. E. B. Du

Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”

January 12, 2018January 15, 2018 Kera Lovell #StudentActivismForum, black feminism, student activism

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls

Black Power and the Detroit High School Organizing Tradition

January 11, 2018January 15, 2018 Dara Walker #StudentActivismForum, black politics, Detroit, education, student activism

This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The sight of National Guard tanks rolling down the streets of Detroit

The Legacy of Berkeley High School’s Black Student Union

January 10, 2018January 15, 2018 Aaron Fountain #StudentActivismForum, Activism, black protest, Malcolm X, teaching

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The Black Student Union (BSU) of Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California

Black Student Power in Boston

January 9, 2018January 13, 2018 Tess Bundy #StudentActivismForum, black protest, Black Studies, Boston, education, student activism, youth

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates