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‘Welcome to East Austin’: Black Power and the American Dream

January 23, 2023January 21, 2023 Brandon James Render #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. In 1971, the Community United Front,

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Military Service and Black Families During the Civil War

January 11, 2023January 6, 2023 Barbara A. Gannon #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, antebellum, Black Family, Civil War

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Somewhere in America today,

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Most Popular Black Perspectives Pieces of the Year

December 21, 2022December 18, 2022 Reighan Gillam Black Historians, Black History, Black Perspectives, Intellectual History, slavery

In 2022, Black Perspectives was alive with roundtables, forums, and individual posts that demonstrated the depth and breadth of Black

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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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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Julia W. Bernier Activism, slavery

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

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