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Online Roundtable–The Georgia of the North

January 14, 2025January 19, 2025 AAIHS Editors #GeorgiaOfTheNorth

January 21 to January 28, 2025 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is

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Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet

January 13, 2025January 8, 2025 Travis Wright Jim Crow, South, travel

On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two

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Call for Papers: 90 Years Since Black Reconstruction in America

November 18, 2024November 18, 2024 AAIHS Editors

Call for Papers: 90 Years since Black Reconstruction in America  Deadline: July 1, 2025 Few works in American history are

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Malcolm X, MLK, and the Call for a Cultural Revolution

November 15, 2024November 14, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black politics, Black radicalism, Civil Rights Movement

Both Minister Malcolm X and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. are oftentimes referred to as civil rights activists. Peniel E.

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Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 Heather Ann Thompson UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On this momentous 60th anniversary of

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