Requiem for a Howard University Student
On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a
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A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival
On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned
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The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South
This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” The work of enslaved
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My Journey to Becoming a Historian of Black Women’s Activism
This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.“ My journey to becoming
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Black Women’s Activism and the Long 1960s: A CBFS Interview
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne
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