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Call for Submissions: Slave Revolts in Early America

October 21, 2022October 13, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackAtlantics, #SlaveRevolts, Atlantic, Early America, Slave Rebellion, Slave Revolts

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum

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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War

October 19, 2022October 13, 2022 Anthony J. Cade II abolition, Civil War, Louis Charles Roundanez, Newspapers, slavery

Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during

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The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley

October 14, 2022October 12, 2022 Tomiko Brown-Nagin #aaihsroundtables, #BlackWomenBOE, Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Movement, Constance Baker Motley, desegregation, education, Thurgood Marshall

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The following is

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Black Women at Columbia University before Brown v. Board

October 10, 2022October 26, 2022 Hettie Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBOE, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision ***A later

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The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer

October 6, 2022October 4, 2022 Stefan Bradley #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. By age 44, most people

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