The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940
“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”
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Black Women and Civil War Pensions
By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a
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Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death
The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.
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The Black Athlete and the Vote
In 1946, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, stood in front of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare
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The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges”
“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the
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