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Mollie Moon and Funding the Civil Rights Movement

January 10, 2024January 1, 2024 Mickell Carter biography, Civil Rights Movement, Fundraising, Molly Moon, Review

Elegance. Galas. Balls. Fashion shows. Fine dining. When we think about the Civil Rights Movement these words typically do not

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Rachel and Jackie Robinson and Housing Discrimination in Connecticut

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023 Seth S. Tannenbaum housing, Jackie Robinson, Jim Crow, sports

As a sport historian who focuses on issues of inclusion and exclusion in the twentieth century United States, Jackie Robinson

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Joyce Ladner and SNCC

November 29, 2023November 13, 2023 Marlee Bunch Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who

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Chick Webb, The King of Swing

November 22, 2023November 7, 2023 Alice Nicholas African Diaspora, Black History, Harlem Renaissance, music

It is important to acknowledge that Black people, wherever they are located in the world, are of African origin because,

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A Womanist Dancing Mind in Wilderness Archives

November 16, 2023October 29, 2023 Jaimie D. Crumley #WomanistTheology, archives, black feminism, Womanism, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ To enter the archive as a historian who studies the

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