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Police Violence Against Black WWII Veterans

November 9, 2023October 30, 2023 Candace Cunningham Black Veterans, police violence, racism, World War II

Black Americans signed up in record numbers to serve their country during World War II. They did so despite a

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Remembering Reverend Annie Rebecca Woodbey

November 8, 2023October 31, 2023 Charles Holm Black women, Gender, religion

The leading Black member of the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in the first decade of the twentieth century, Rev.

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The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

November 2, 2023October 29, 2023 Rebecca Dudley book review, civil rights, Jim Crow, racism, Resistance

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,

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Black Reconstruction in the Twenty-First Century

October 24, 2023October 18, 2023 Lacey P. Hunter 19th Century, American Civil War, American Democracy, citizenship, Civil Rights Movement, Voting Rights

  Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books,

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Dr. Joanne Martin’s Great Blacks in Wax Museum

October 23, 2023October 22, 2023 Menika Dirkson Black women, curation, education, material culture, museums

Across America, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is known for highlighting unvarnished accounts of African American History from

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