Search Results for: Civil War

The Afterlives of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

June 3, 2021June 2, 2021 Rose M. Brewer Activism, Black Power, education, Racial Violence, Resistance

What is it about May and Black death?  What is it about Memorial Day when it comes to white racial terrorism

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The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern archives, black protest, race, Resistance, Tulsa

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that

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Call for Submissions: Juneteenth and the Black Experience

May 21, 2021June 5, 2021 AAIHS Editors Historical Memory

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives is inviting blog posts centering around the Juneteenth holiday in time for the

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Holly Pinheiro

Holly Pinheiro received his doctoral degree from the University of Iowa. He is an Assistant Professor of African American History

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The History of African American Visual Culture

April 1, 2021March 31, 2021 Mary N. Mitchell art, Black Arts Movement, freedom, race, racism, slavery, Visual Culture

If you were lucky enough to see “The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” an

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