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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Rhonda Y. Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Activism, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Prelude I teach a course

Online Forum–Black Women and Brown v. Board of Education

September 30, 2022October 3, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackWomenBOE, Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Movement, desegregation, education

October 10, 2022 to October 14, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an

Dorothy Height and the Roots of a Black Intellectual-Activist

September 28, 2022September 23, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Civil Rights Movement, Dorthy I. Height, Great Migreation, Intellectual History, Intellectual Identity, Racial Justice

Dorothy I. Height was a model Black intellectual-activist. She challenged racism and sexism at an early age, setting the stage for a

Historical Legacies, Black Canadian Slavery, and Institutional Histories

September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 Melissa N. Shaw Black women, Canada, slavery, Universities, Women

McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver

Historicizing Black Left Feminism in Prerevolutionary Cuba

September 21, 2022September 14, 2022 Takkara Brunson Black Left Feminism, Black women, Cuba, feminism, Women

In April 1925, white feminist leaders invited tobacco stemmer Inocencia Valdés to speak before delegates of the Second National Women’s