Search Results for: Civil War

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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Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California

October 4, 2023September 19, 2023 E. Nicole Vines Black women, California, Jim Crow, Mary E. Pleasant, segregation

Between the 1830s and 1890s, the Colored Conventions Movement transformed Black political organizing across the US. Of the thirty states

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African Americans and the State Militia

September 22, 2023September 7, 2023 Gregory Mixon antebellum, citizenship, Civil War, military, Militia

What is the historical relationship between African Americans and the state militia? Today, some may believe the militia to be

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Deprovincializing Black Studies and Translating Blackness Beyond Borders

September 11, 2023September 7, 2023 Robin D. G. Kelley #Roundtable, #TranslatingBlackness, Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, book review, Frederick Douglass, History, Transnationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness is a

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Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics

September 6, 2023August 22, 2023 Karen Cook Bell Civil War, education, Leadership, Politics, reconstruction, Robert Smalls

Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate

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