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Call for Submissions: The Gary National Political Convention of 1972

February 4, 2022February 3, 2022 Robert Greene II Amiri Baraka, Black National Convention, Black Politicians, black politics, Gary

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts centering on the Gary

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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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A Review of 2021 Books in Black Intellectual History

February 1, 2022January 31, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Resistance

The following list is a sampling of books on African American history that were released during 2021. All of them

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The International MLK

January 17, 2022January 16, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil Rights Movement, Internationalism, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Day, Vietnam War

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his

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MLK And Lillian Smith

December 20, 2021December 19, 2021 Matthew Teutsch Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Gender, South

On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was

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