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On the Making and Timely Re-Release of Reluctant Reformers

August 11, 2021August 9, 2021 Say Burgin Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, usable past

In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically

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The Black Athlete and the Vote

August 9, 2021August 8, 2021 Louis Moore #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black politics, black protest

In 1946, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, stood in front of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare

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The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges”

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Kerri Greenidge #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, Anti-Lynching, black politics, human rights, race

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History

July 28, 2021July 27, 2021 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

The recent passing of Bob Moses offers a quiet moment to consider the varied lessons intellectual historians—and others—should take from

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