Online Forum: Frederick Douglass @ 200
November 26-30, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Frederick Douglass on
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Search Results for: Booker T. Washington
Slavery, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks
Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced
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Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Souls of Academic Folk
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing our recent online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois in recognition of the anniversary of his passing on
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On W.E.B. Du Bois and Poetry
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing our recent online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois in recognition of the anniversary of his passing on
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