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The Consequences of USCT Soldiering

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Civil War, Pension System, reparations, United States Colored Infantry, United States Colored Troop, USCI, USCT

Solomon Wilson, a Thirty-First United States Colored Infantry (USCI) soldier, died in a regimental hospital on August 6, 1864. An

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Comic Books, Black History, and Education

November 22, 2021November 21, 2021 Matthew Teutsch education, teaching

Instead of “Unjust to the South” stamped on the inside of our books, we have “promotes/ensures patriotic education” typed into

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Resistance Discourse of Nineteenth Century Black Intellectuals

November 5, 2021November 4, 2021 Anna Stibbe #BlackAtlantics, abolition, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, slavery

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” At the “National Negro Convention” in Buffalo of 1843, Black

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Charles W. Mills: In Memoriam

September 29, 2021September 28, 2021 Robert Greene II Activism, black politics, race, teaching

UNIA Parade, Organized in Harlem, 1920 (New York Public Library) It is difficult to imagine recent Black intellectual history without

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Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII

September 9, 2021September 8, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky African Diaspora, black politics, Black radicalism

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

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