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George Hackett, Baltimore’s Birthright Citizen

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 Martha S. Jones #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black politics

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Robert Hunt Ferguson Activism, Civil Rights Movement, education, Jim Crow, Resistance, teaching

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

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Protest, Property, and the Black Press

July 27, 2021July 26, 2021 E. James West black intellectual history, Racial Violence

The centennial of the Tulsa Massacre earlier this year provided a moment to reflect on perhaps the worst single incidence

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Online Forum–Contested Citizenship: Legacies of American Slavery

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black politics, civil rights

August 2, 2021 to August 10, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating

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Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History

July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Robert Greene II Black women, Civil Rights Movement

Gloria Richardson passed away on July 15, 2021, at the age of 99. Tributes have already poured in for the

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