Search Results for: Civil War

Postal Work and the Struggle for Black Freedom

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, civil rights, Racial Violence, South, white supremacy

In late 1892, a railroad operator approached activist-journalist Ida B. Wells to inquire why the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee, had been

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The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century

June 11, 2021June 9, 2021 Julia Bernier Activism, black radical tradition, Haiti, slavery, white supremacy

In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish

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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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