Search Results for: slavery

The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

September 8, 2023August 25, 2023 Bala Baptiste Jim Crow, MEDIA, Newspapers, white supremacy

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

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Online Roundtable–Lorgia García Peña’s ‘Translating Blackness’

September 5, 2023September 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #TranslatingBlackness, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx

September 11, 2023 to September 15, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

August 30, 2023August 4, 2023 Taylor Prescott book review, Jim Crow, violence

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

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AAIHS Denounces White Supremacist Violence in Florida

August 29, 2023August 28, 2023 AAIHS Editors violence, white supremacy

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) condemns the recent white supremacist massacre perpetrated against Black Americans in Jacksonville, Florida.

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On The Sixtieth Anniversary of the March on Washington

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 Robert Greene II civil rights

In recent years, memorialization of the Civil Rights era from the 1950s and 1960s has taken on a new urgency

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