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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

July 19, 2018July 26, 2018 Duncan Tarr Activism, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, capitalism

On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge

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Sandra Bland and Assata Shakur: Imagining Liberation from Persecution

July 12, 2018July 16, 2018 Cristina Mislan #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, prisons, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The

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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

July 5, 2018July 9, 2018 Jessica Parr Black women, law, New York, segregation

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

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Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2018July 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, slavery

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

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Black Women, History, and the Democratic Party

July 3, 2018July 9, 2018 Millington Bergeson-Lockwood Activism, black politics, Black women, electoral politics, Jim Crow

On May 30, 2018, Axios published an article announcing, “Black women feel slighted by the Democrats.” The article explains how African

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