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Envisioning Black Memphis at Midcentury

October 9, 2018October 18, 2018 Beverly Greene Bond Black women, racism, religion, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light By 1940, Memphis, Tennessee was – with

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The Deportation of Claudia Jones

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black nationalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, criminal justice system

This is the final installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first and second installments. At the

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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)

Mentha Morrison: A Story of Debt Peonage in Jim Crow Georgia

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 La Toya Tanisha Francis and Patrick Rael black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, racism, South

Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of

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Black Radicalism and the Trial of Claudia Jones

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Claudia Jones, Communist Party, criminal justice system

This is the second installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first installment here. Claudia Jones believed that

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Claudia Jones and the FBI Harassment of Black Radicals

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Claudia Jones

This is the first installment of a three-part series on Claudia Jones. In February 2018, New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz

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