Search Results for: civil rights era

Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

Read more

Ida Taught Me

May 16, 2020May 19, 2020 Koritha Mitchell Activism, Black radicalism, Black women, civil rights

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She

Read more

Claiming Freedom in the Low Country

May 13, 2020May 11, 2020 Adam McNeil Georgia, landownership, slavery

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number

Read more

Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’

May 12, 2020May 11, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable

May 18-22, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of African

Read more

“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures

May 7, 2020May 3, 2020 Camille Goldmon blackness, entrepreneurs, Historical Memory

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of

Read more