Search Results for: Civil War

Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Westenley Alcenat Constitution, economic justice, law, Racial Capitalism, slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality

May 7, 2019May 5, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Gender, Jim Crow, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a

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Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South

May 3, 2019May 6, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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African American Presidential Politics and the Black Radical Imagination

April 30, 2019May 6, 2019 E. James West Activism, black politics, Black Power, electoral politics, Politics, Trumpism, voting

In March 1969, at a grade school in Washington, D.C., an eclectic audience gathered to celebrate the inauguration of comedian

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Frederick Douglass, Family, and Biography

April 26, 2019October 31, 2019 Ezra Greenspan #DouglassForward, race, Resistance

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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