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Black Homeownership Before World War II

March 29, 2023March 23, 2023 Menika Dirkson Home Ownership, housing, Jim Crow, Philadelphia, segregation

On November 2, 1914, twenty eight-year-old James H. Teagle, the “colored” chauffeur for Philadelphia City Controller John Walton, left his

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Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey

March 27, 2023March 26, 2023 Rann Miller Resistance, slavery

Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled

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The White Press & Jim Crow

February 23, 2023February 22, 2023 Justin Laing Jim Crow, journalism, New South, Newspapers, segregation

Within a frame of a two competing ideas of the United States “one liberal, the other illiberal,” Journalism and Jim Crow

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Pittsburgh Reformers and the Black Freedom Struggle

February 9, 2023February 7, 2023 Ashley Everson #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, Great Migration, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Historian Adam Lee Cilli’s

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New England’s Unsung Black Liberation Movement

December 8, 2022December 6, 2022 Dylan O’Hara Activism, Boston, education, Massachusetts, New England, School Activism

Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of

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