Search Results for: Civil War

Claudia Jones and the FBI Harassment of Black Radicals

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Claudia Jones

This is the first installment of a three-part series on Claudia Jones. In February 2018, New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz

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The 1968 Occupation of Black Wilmington

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Say Burgin black politics

On April 8, 1968, several hundred residents of Wilmington, the largest city in the state of Delaware, marched through the

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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore

October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 Adam McNeil Activism, archives, Baltimore, freedom, race, racism

Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and

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‘The Dawn of Detroit’: An Interview with Historian Tiya Miles

September 20, 2018September 25, 2018 Alaina E. Roberts African Diaspora, Canada, Detroit, race, slave trade

In today’s post, Alaina E. Roberts, the Dietrich Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of

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Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

September 19, 2018September 25, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden Marriage, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

A recent NPR article entitled “Same-Sex-Marriage Flashpoint: Alabama Considers Quitting The Marriage Business” ⁠included a photo of two African American

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