Search Results for: Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma

March 2, 2017March 6, 2017 Jeremy C. Young Barack Obama, black politics, black protest, W.E.B. Du Bois

First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened

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Black Internationalism, Booker T. Washington, and the German Empire in Africa

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016 Guest Poster

This is a guest post by Marius Kothor, a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of

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Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate

September 24, 2016September 21, 2016 Shawn Leigh Alexander black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, T. Thomas Fortune, Trumpism

Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America

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2026 AAIHS Award Winners

March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 AAIHS Editors 0 Comments
Book Award

*At the 11th annual meeting of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) in Pittsburgh, we honored the recipients of

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Afterlives of the Plantation: An Interview with Jarvis C. McInnis

January 23, 2026January 22, 2026 Robert Greene II 5 Comments

In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, Former AAIHS President and Associate Professor of History at Claflin University, interviews Dr.

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