Search Results for: Civil Rights Movement

Ella Jenkins and Sonic Civil Rights Pedagogy

April 25, 2025April 24, 2025 Gayle F. Wald 4 Comments

Ella Jenkins sat smiling in her wheelchair, ready to greet her public. It was noon on August 4, 2024, and

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Centering Northern Black Women in the Civil Rights Narrative

January 22, 2025January 19, 2025 Lacey Hunter #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. As the body of

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Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 17, 2023November 7, 2023 A’Dorian Murray-Thomas black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily

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Septima Clark and the Fight for Civil Rights

October 26, 2023October 17, 2023 Tara Kirton Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, education

There are many names synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, but there are countless lesser-known individuals who played a critical

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Howard Thurman: A Bridge Between Movements

April 17, 2023April 16, 2023 Tryce D. Prince #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1897, a group of scholars and

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