Search Results for: Civil War

Baseball and Black American Memory

October 15, 2021October 14, 2021 Robert Greene II Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball, Memory, Negro Leagues

October in the United States means the arrival of the Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs. Arguably more than any other

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Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement

October 5, 2021October 4, 2021 Brandon K. Winford black protest, Civil Rights Movement, education

The 1960 sit-in movement that began in Greensboro on February 1 is a familiar story when it comes to Black

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Black Women, Sanderson Farms, and the Strike for Better Conditions

October 4, 2021October 3, 2021 Derrion Arrington Activism, Black women, Gender

African American Women in Industry, 1939-1945 (New York Public Library)     “Try Miss Goldy Chickens, and try a little

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Critical Race Theory and the Misappropriating of Martin Luther King, Jr.

September 30, 2021September 29, 2021 Tyler Parry black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, education

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking Against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, April 27, 1967 (Wikimedia Commons)

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The Other Side of Black Success in Martin Kilson’s Odyssey

September 28, 2021September 27, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield black intellectual history, teaching

One of the earliest childhood memories of the late Martin Kilson is that of his father, Reverend Martin Luther Kilson

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