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State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 Sally Greene Black women, Freedom Suits, law, North Carolina, slavery

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

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Tuskegee’s Civilizing Mission

February 21, 2022February 20, 2022 Kenneth Smith black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

From his academic career at the Hampton Institute (1872-1875) in Virginia until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington preached

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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

  What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

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The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments

February 2, 2022February 1, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. racism, South

On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander

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Highways, High-Rises and Food Deserts

January 19, 2022January 18, 2022 E. James West Black Metropolis, Chicago, documumerica, photography, urban

This is the second part of our series about Race and DOCUMERICA.   For many DOCUMERICA photographers, images of Black life

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