Search Results for: Civil War

Race, Welfare Reform, and the Push for Family Values

August 31, 2022August 22, 2022 Trumaine Mitchell Abortion, Black women, Congress, reproductive justice, Welfare

With the stroke of a pen, all the gains of the abortion rights movement in the United States were overturned

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Black Women Resisting Racial Violence: A CBFS Interview

August 29, 2022August 23, 2022 Lucien Baskin black feminism, Black women, Racial Violence

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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Hettie V. Williams

Hettie V. Williams is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University.

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The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality

August 25, 2022August 17, 2022 Alani Golanski 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, law, Supreme Court, Voting Rights

  The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

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Announcement from AAIHS: Call for Book Reviewers

August 24, 2022August 21, 2022 AAIHS Editors book review

Call for Book Reviewers The editing team at Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society,

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