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#CFP: Black Women and 19th Century America

March 24, 2023April 25, 2023 AAIHS Editors 19th Century, Black women, CFP, Charlotte Forten, Schools, Susie King Taylor

When discussing the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, numerous individuals and organizations tend to focus on the mid-twentieth century to highlight

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Aaron Douglas’ History Lesson on the Responsibility of Black Artists

March 22, 2023March 17, 2023 Tiffany Pennamon Aaron Douglas, art, Fisk, HBCU, labor

In an interview with Fisk University professor Leslie Collins, Harlem Renaissance painter and educator Aaron Douglas recalled his admiration for

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2023 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 8, 2023March 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSConference, AAIHS23, Book Award, conference, Pauli Murray, Pauli Murray Book Award Finalists

    The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli

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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: An Interview

February 28, 2023February 26, 2023 Lucien Baskin black intellectual history, CBFS, Civil Rights Movement

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s

February 21, 2023February 20, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black politics, police brutality, police violence

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns

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